Kasturirangan suffers heart attack, admitted to Bengaluru heart facility

NT Correspondent

New Delhi: Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman and head of New Education Policy's drafting committee K Kasturirangan has been admitted to Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences after suffering a heart attack in Sri Lanka and has been airlifted to Bengaluru.

“Former ISRO chairman Dr K Kasturirangan has been admitted to Narayana Health City, Bengaluru, for treatment of an acute illness.

Preliminary investigations are ongoing and he is being closely monitored by and treated by a multidisciplinary team of doctors,” an official statement by the institute said.

Sources said that the patient’s condition was stable.