<p>Veteran Journalist Narayan Raghuveer Ubhaya, better known as N R Ubhaya, who had retired as Principal Correspondent of Mangalore Bureau in The New Indian Express, passed away at a private hospital on Friday night. He was 75. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Ubhaya, son of Raghuveer Ubhaya who retired as Railway Magistrate, had served in The New Indian Express for nearly two decades.<br /><br /> Prior to joining Indian Express, he had served as a Reporter in many Kannada dailies including Navabharat, Kannada Vani, Samyukta Karnataka and Kannada Prabha. He had also worked as a correspondent in UNI for some time. <br /><br />He had also launched an evening Kannada daily ‘Janraj’ during Emergency. A former senate member of Mangalore University and DK Telecom Advisory Committee, he retired from Indian Express in 2002. <br /><br />Ubhaya also had donated three cents of land to help devotees build a Ayappa temple close to his house. Ubhaya is survived by his wife Nandini Ubhaya and Son Bharat.<br /><br />Former union minister B Janardhan Poojary, Health Minister U T Khader, MLA J R Lobo and Mayor Mahabala Marla among others have condoled the death of Ubhaya.<br /></p>
<p>Veteran Journalist Narayan Raghuveer Ubhaya, better known as N R Ubhaya, who had retired as Principal Correspondent of Mangalore Bureau in The New Indian Express, passed away at a private hospital on Friday night. He was 75. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Ubhaya, son of Raghuveer Ubhaya who retired as Railway Magistrate, had served in The New Indian Express for nearly two decades.<br /><br /> Prior to joining Indian Express, he had served as a Reporter in many Kannada dailies including Navabharat, Kannada Vani, Samyukta Karnataka and Kannada Prabha. He had also worked as a correspondent in UNI for some time. <br /><br />He had also launched an evening Kannada daily ‘Janraj’ during Emergency. A former senate member of Mangalore University and DK Telecom Advisory Committee, he retired from Indian Express in 2002. <br /><br />Ubhaya also had donated three cents of land to help devotees build a Ayappa temple close to his house. Ubhaya is survived by his wife Nandini Ubhaya and Son Bharat.<br /><br />Former union minister B Janardhan Poojary, Health Minister U T Khader, MLA J R Lobo and Mayor Mahabala Marla among others have condoled the death of Ubhaya.<br /></p>