Senior journalist Kedarman Singh Shrestha has passed away. He was 81.

A resident of Bhotebahal in Kathmandu metropolis, Shrestha was a journalist from Nepal who worked for AFP for 40 years and BBC for 20 years. Currently, he has been contributing articles for various newspapers as a freelance journalist.

Shrestha was suffering from heart ailments for a long time and he died at 12:05 noon today during treatment at the Blue Cross Hospital in Tripureshwor, according to his son Susanman Shrestha.