Jose Saramago, Nobel Prize winner writer who won this prize in 1998 in the field of Literature, has died. According to latest updates, he has died today at his home, located in Canary Islands of Spain in Lanzarote at the age of 87. He became very first Portuguese who won Nobel Prize in his native language in Literature field. The initial cause of his death has been told as failure of multi-organs.

Jose Saramago had been ill for a long time and died today at the age of 87, said by Jose Saramago Foundation. They further said that he was in his family at the time of his death and died in peaceful and placid way. According to reports, he had been suffering from Leukemia for a long time. He wrote “Blindness” in year 1995 which took him a lot of internationally.

Jose Saramago was feeling well today morning and he had taken breakfast as his routine with his wife along with some chat with her but later on in the day, his health getting worst and worst and finally he died, reported by his family to media. He was born near Lisbon in Azinhaga town on 16 th of November 1922 and spent his early childhood and young age in capital.

Jose Saramago actually belonged to a lower middle class family and could not get admission in university to complete higher education due to financial problems but he did not give hope and worked part-time to support his studies.

Jose Saramago

Rajasekhara Reddy Andhra Pradesh CM has been announced dead by the government of India officials. He has been killed with four other persons that were carrying through the chopper around 24 hours ago and were vanished from the scene as the officials were unable to make any contact to that chopper and also the exact location of their missing area was also not confirmed.

The chopper of the Andhra Pradesh CM Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was reported missing in a densely forested area. A PMO official told the media that the bodies have been found and will be taken to the Hyderabad for further processing of post-mortem. He was talking to the media after finding distorted remains of the Bell helicopter on a hilltop in Kurnool, which is around two hundred kilometer away from Hyderabad.

A whole day and night search in pouring rain had been conducted by the villages and searching parties of the helicopters in the forested surroundings for the ruins, and finally they located the remains at east of Kurnool town at around 40 nautical miles. The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh was well known with the name YSR.

Andhra CM was going from the capital of his state to Chittoor which is around 588 kilometer away from here, to participate for a mass contact program and then suddenly one news surfaced that the chopper that was carrying him and other four persons went missing in stormy weather on Wednesday at around 9.30 am in the Nallamalla forests. And according to the latest updates Andhra CM dead.

rajasekhara Reddy Satyam Andhra CM (Dead)

Andhra Pradesh Cm Rajasekhara Reddy

Andhra Pradesh Cm Rajasekhara Reddy

James Traficant, former representative of Ohio has been released from the prison of Minnesota on Wednesday after being served around seven year punishment for racketeering and bribery. Traficant, a Democrat of nine-term from Youngstown stepped into a cab after leaving the Federal Medical Center in Rochester.

While sitting into the cab, a question of a shouting reporter was ignored by James Traficant. He was wearing white shorts, T-shirt, white socks of knee-high at that time with an all time famous wild hair into pulled back style. Three years of probation will also be faced by him. It is still to be announced by him that he will return back to his public life or he will get his retirement.

James Traficant 68, well known for his wild hair and was one of the most colorful members of the Congress with his brief speeches on the floor. Traficant was convicted in 2002 in a harsh trial of racketeering and bribery for accepting taking kickbacks from the staff members and bribers from businessmen.

He was then disqualified by the Congress and became the second member of the House to be expelled for unethical conduct after the Civil War. In 2004 James Traficant was transferred to the Rochester facility where specialized medical services are provided to the prisoners. Traficant will report regularly to the probation officer during his probation period of three years in which getting permission from traveling outside the northern Ohio is also included.

James Traficant Release

James Traficant Release

Alexis Tioseco, a well known Filipino-Canadian film critic was shot dead with his best friend and love Nika Bohinc, a Slovenian programmer and critic. Both have been killed during a robbery on Tuesday night at their home in Quezon City. The door was opened by a household when the bell was rung by three gunmen who then robbed the valuables and shot the couple, according to the local news reports.

Alexis Tioseco was of good reputation lecturer, critic and writer and his murdered news has made the Asian film community sad. Rising wave of independent filmmakers was also helped by Tioseco to the overseas and local audiences as well. Tioseco was an editor of Criticine.com and was a champion of the cinema of South-East Asian.

Criticine.com takes interviews of local directors and makes in depth criticism of the films of South-East Asian Alexis Tioseco was also a writer for a large range of local, newspapers like “Philippine Star”, “Philippine Daily Inquirer” and for other publications as well. Tioseco also served as a jury member of the FIPRESCI and NETPAC at several festivals.

Nika Bohinc, the best friend and love of Alexis Tioseco was also a highly honored journalist of the film industry and a programmer for several festivals like Cinema Film Festival and Ljubljana International Film Festival. Nika Bohinc also served as a FIPRESCI Slovenia president. The loss of their death is staggering to all those directors and people of film industry who called them friends, said by Raymond Phathanavirangoon.

Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc (Killed)

Sheila Lukins was born in Philadelphia on 3rd October 1942. She was a food writer and a cook. “The Silver Palate” and “the New Basics Cookbook” which are the series of the cooking books were co-authored by her with Julee Rosso and that was the book which gave her fame actually. These books are the very popular set of food guides.

Many Americans were introduced to the Southern and Eastern European and French techniques of cooking and ingredients as well through these books by Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso. More than seven million copies of these books have been sold yet. Sheila Lukins was also the owner and co-founder of the popular gourmet shop “Silver Palate” in New York City.

She was the columnist and food editor for “Parade” for the last 23 years. This position was previously with Julia Child. Sheila Lukins spent her childhood in Westport, Connecticut and Norwalk. She got the arts education from the “School of Visual Arts”, “Tyler School of Fine Arts” and “New York University” and earned the bachelor’s degree in Art Education.

Sheila Lukins joined Le Cordon Bleu in London, England as a graphic designer. And later on she continued culinary education in France and that was the place where she worked with Michelin being a star chef in Bordeaux. Sheila Lukins was diagnosed brain cancer in the month of June 2009 and died on August 30, 2009 due to the same disease at her home in Manhattan. she died at the age of 66.

Sheila Lukins

Sheila Lukins

Sheila Lukins

Ted Kennedy has died at the age of 77. He was a Democrat U.S. Senator from Massachusetts died at the age of 77 on August 25, 2009. Brain tumor was diagnosed to Ted Kennedy on May 20, 2008 and was released from the General Hospital of Massachusetts on May 21. Ted Kennedy was in Boston on February 22, 1932 to Edward Moore Kennedy.

Ted Kennedy was the senator of the United States since 1985 and is survived by five children, his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Jean Kennedy Smith his sister and many nephews and nieces. ABC News and CNN had first of all reported about the death Ted Kennedy on August 25, 2009. He was the youngest among the Kennedy sisters and brothers.

Although Ted Kenney had a successful surgery after being diagnosed the brain tumor but his health was getting worse and worse and in the month of January he suffered an attack too. Just two weeks before the death of Ted Kennedy, his sister Eunice Shriver passed away. She died at the age of 88. There were total nine Kennedy children and Ted Kennedy was the ninth one.

And the death of Ted Kennedy was the death of eighth child of the family and there is only one left and that is Jean Kennedy Smith which is four year older than the Ted. Senator Kennedy had completed his graduation from the Harvard University. He was living in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts with his wife and five children.

Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy

North Point Prison Danville KY was set on fire by inmates on early Saturday during a disturbance at the central Kentucky prison, said by the police. Minor injuries were also got by some of the prisoners during this disturbance but luckily no officer or staff members were hurt at the North point prison training center which is prison of medium security men, situated around 60 miles of Louisville towards southeast.

Kitchen, medical building and some other buildings were damaged because of fire set by the inmates during a disturbance at North point prison at Kentucky, according the press release issued by the Kentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet. The disturbance started actually on Friday at 6:30 am and tear gas fired by the officers at around 9 pm, according to the release.

All the inmates of north point prison were gentled by the police by 10:30 am. Dozens of state police, local police and corrections department officers had been summoned. Every unit of the police that was available to response was called in the north point prison at Kentucky, said by the spokesman of Kentucky State Police Lt. David Jude.

Spokesman of Gov. Steve Beshear Jay Blanton said that governor had been in continuous contact with the officials of the north point prison. There are around 1,100 inmates housed in north point prison’s six open-bay dormitories, according to the website of the prison. There are other 60 inmates under the special management category are housed in single cells in north point prison Kentucky.

North Point Prison Danville KY