{"id":10878,"date":"2021-04-30T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerising.in\/?p=10878"},"modified":"2021-04-30T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T10:30:07","slug":"senior-journalist-and-tv-anchor-rohit-sardana-dies-of-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northeastrising.in\/test\/senior-journalist-and-tv-anchor-rohit-sardana-dies-of-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior journalist and TV anchor Rohit Sardana dies of heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Delhi, April 30: <\/strong>Senior journalist and Aaj Tak anchor Rohit Sardana have passed away. The 41-year-old died of cardiac arrest while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Noida on Friday. Rohit Sardana is survived by his wife, two daughters, and his parents.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old Aaj Tak anchor had recently tested positive for Covid-19 but he was active and on his way to recovery. Rohit continued to encourage his colleagues and was amplifying Covid-related posts on Twitter till late Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>His situation, however, deteriorated on Thursday night, following which he was rushed to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metrohospitals.com\/\">Metro Multispecialty Hospital<\/a> <\/span><\/span>in Noida. He died of a heart attack on the morning of April 30.<\/p>\n<p>The anchor of Aaj Tak, Rohit hailed from Kurukshetra in Haryana. Rohit was a recipient of the NT Award and ENBA Award for the best anchor as well as the prestigious Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Award for Hindi journalism.<\/p>\n<p>In his career that spanned over one-and-a-half-decade, Rohit Sardana started as an announcer in All India Radio after which he made a name for himself as he anchored shows in ETV, Sahara Samay, Zee News, and then Aaj Tak.<\/p>\n<p>Rohit Sardana was considered one of the most powerful anchors in Hindi. As the anchor of Aaj Tak&#8217;s prime time show, Dangal, Rohit achieved a milestone in TV anchoring which only a few have got. Prior to this, he was the anchor of a popular show on Zee News.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nerising.in\/assam-police-gun-down-ulfa-commander-in-encounter\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Assam Police gun down ULFA commander in encounter<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rohit never shied away from asking tough questions to politicians. In fact, he would often stop talking to leaders of the ruling party and those in Opposition due to this. He had millions of followers on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Before making the news of Rohit&#8217;s death public, it was the responsibility of the India Today Group to inform his family. The group first informed Rohit\u2019s family of his demise after which the news was shared with the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi, April 30: Senior journalist and Aaj Tak anchor Rohit Sardana have passed away. The 41-year-old died of cardiac arrest while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Noida on Friday. Rohit Sardana is survived by his wife, two daughters, and his parents. The 41-year-old Aaj Tak anchor had recently tested positive for Covid-19 but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[29,27],"tags":[1152,1155,1154,1151,1153],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senior journalist and TV anchor Rohit Sardana dies of heart attack - North East Rising<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senior journalist and AajTak anchor Rohit Sardana have passed away. 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