Sarla Maheshwari, a pioneering Doordarshan newsreader from 1976 to 2005, passed away in Delhi at 71. She was one of the most recognisable faces of Indian TV news in the 1980s and 1990s

Tamang’s close friend, singer Mahesh Sewa, said that the singer-actor died at his residence in Janak Puri; the family is yet to decide whether to perform the funeral in Delhi or Darjeeling