Newspaper Headlines: Diego Maradona Dies Of Heart Attack At 60 And Other Top Stories

Hindustan Times: Diego Maradona has died from a heart attack days after turning 60. He breathed his last at home, his lawyer said, just three weeks after having surgery on a blood clot in his brain. The air quality in the National Capital Region plunged back into the "severe" pollution zone and inched towards emergency levels on Wednesday, shrouding the region in a haze of its own emissions that have now been trapped by a cocktail of metrological factors: low winds, a blanket of clouds, and cold temperatures.

The Indian Express: Sonia Gandhi described Ahmed Patel as an "irreplaceable companion" but, surprisingly, Rahul, who was often not on the same page as him, summed up the loss of Ahmed bhai - as he was widely known - more pithily. Rahul acknowledged him as "one of the pillars of the Congress"- not exactly an understatement from a dynast who assumes that without the first family thepartyis a hollow shell. There are legends, immortals and G.O.A.Ts, the Greatest of All Time. Then there is Diego Maradona. The legendary footballer died, aged 60, after suffering a cardiac arrest on Wednesday.

The Asian Age: Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel died at a Gurgaon hospital on Wednesday morning. He was 71. The veteran politician had been at Medanta Hospital since his health worsened after a Covid infection. Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, died Wednesday at the age of 60, plunging his native Argentina and football fans around the world into mourning.