Senior Journalists Aariz Chandra, Pankaj Khelkar No More

Senior journalist Aariz Chandra passes away

Journalist Aariz Chandra, known for his extensive coverage of Mumbai underworld stories, has passed away. Sources say that Chandra suffered a fatal brain haemorrhage.

Chandra was working for APN as input head at the time of his demise. He specialised in crime stories and had broken several exclusives during his stints at Aaj Tak.

TV journalist Pankaj Khelkar no more

TV journalist Pankaj Khelkar is no more. Khelkar, who was associated with India Today Group, suffered a heart attack on Monday night. He was 54.

Khelkar was serving as Associate Editor in the Pune Bureau. He had been with the India Today Group for about 26 years. 

Remembering Khelkar, Rahul Kanwal, news director of India Today and Aajtak shares, “In the two decades that I knew him, Pankaj was always the first to experiment with and implement new broadcast technologies in his reportage, oftentimes even before the technical team had formally rolled them out.”

MP Supriya Sule too mourned his death. “The news of the death of senior journalist Pankaj Khelkar is shocking. Pankaj was a very experienced journalist. He did very good reporting on the political and social sphere in and around the city of Pune. We all share in the grief the Khelkar family has felt due to his demise. A heartfelt tribute,” she wrote on X.

Khelkar studied television journalism at Symbiosis Institute of Media in 1995. He started working with India Today in 1997.