NEW DELHI (Bernama): India's junior railway minister Suresh Angadi died of Covid-19 on Wednesday evening, two weeks after he was tested positive for the coronavirus.
He was the first federal minister to lose his life to the disease.
Angadi, aged 65, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of parliament from the southern state of Karnataka, died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.