Eric Hobsbawm, the eminent British historian who chronicled the extremes of the 19th and 20th centuries from a Marxist perspective, died on Monday at the age of 95, his daughter said.

Hobsbawm was a

He was a star campaigner, a powerful orator and tallest leader after Mr Sharad Pawar who had following acorss Maharashtra.

Vilasrao Deshmukh remained on the political pitch for nearly four decades.

Carroll Shelby, the legendary auto racer and car designer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford's Mustang and Chrysler's Viper, has died.

He was 89.

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