Vishwanath Baburao Patil passes away
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Vishwanth Baburao Patil
Vishwanath Baburao Patil, awarding-winning senior journalist, died in Bidar on Sunday. He was 85. He was suffering from age-related health complications, his family sources said.
He was a stringer for
The Hindu for over two decades, covering Bidar district.
He was the founder editor of Daman, the first Hindi newspaper from Kalyan Karnataka region, that he started in 1969.
A graduate in journalism from Osmania University, he served as the District Information and Publicity Officer in Mysore State. He resigned from his post to start his own newspaper.
He served