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Senior journalist and Chief Editor of Kannada daily, Satyakam, Panchappa M. Mannur breathed his last at a private hospital in Bengaluru on Friday morning. He was 78.
Mr. Mannur was ailing from age-related health issues for the past few months. He underwent a complex spine surgery in Bengaluru in September but failed to respond to post-operative treatment and died on Friday morning.
The journalist was a native of Muttagi village of Basavana Bagewadi taluk in Vijayapura district and settled down in Kalaburagi in 1962. After working in a couple of Kannada daily newspapers, Mr. Mannur launched Satyakam in 1970.
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