Legendary Indian ghazal singer dies

Legendary Indian ghazal singer Jagjit Singh died at a hospital in Mumbai on Monday. He was 70. Popularly known as "The Ghazal King", Singh breathed his last at Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital where he has been in a coma since he was admitted there on Sept. 23, following a life-saving surgery in the wake of a brain haemorrhage. "Jagjit Singh passed away at 08:10 a.m. after having a terrible haemorrhage," Dr. Sudhir Nandgaonkar, hospital's spokesperson, told the media. He is survived by his wife Chitra Singh. The Singh couple gained acclaim in the 1970s and 1980s as the first ever successful husband-wife duo in the history of recorded Indian music.