{"id":987704,"date":"2026-01-26T09:19:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987704"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:44:22","slug":"bbcs-veteran-india-correspondent-sir-mark-tully-passes-away-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/bbcs-veteran-india-correspondent-sir-mark-tully-passes-away-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC\u2019s veteran India correspondent Sir Mark Tully passes away at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran broadcaster and journalist Sir Mark Tully, long regarded as the BBC\u2019s \u201cvoice of India\u201d, has died at the age of 90. The award-winning journalist had been unwell for some time and was admitted to Max Hospital in Delhi\u2019s Saket over the past week. The news of his passing was confirmed by veteran journalist and Tully\u2019s close friend Satish Jacob. <\/p>\n<p>For decades, Tully\u2019s distinctive, warm voice was familiar to BBC audiences in Britain and across the world. As one of the corporation\u2019s most respected foreign correspondents, he reported extensively from India, covering some of the country\u2019s most defining moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran broadcaster and journalist Sir Mark Tully, long regarded as the BBC\u2019s \u201cvoice of India\u201d, has died at the age of 90. The award-winning journalist had been unwell for some time and was admitted to Max Hospital in Delhi\u2019s Saket over the past week. The news of his passing was confirmed by veteran journalist and Tully\u2019s close friend Satish Jacob. For decades, Tully\u2019s distinctive, warm voice was familiar to BBC audiences in Britain and across the world. As one of the corporation\u2019s most respected foreign correspondents, he reported extensively from India, covering some of the country\u2019s most defining moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}