Actor Sushant Singh Rajput dies

On June 14, 2020, actor Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his Mumbai apartment. According to Mumbai police, he had committed suicide

Highlights

• The actor has played lead roles in TV series. 
• He won the best actor award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne in 2017 for his movie M S Dhoni: The Untold Story.
• The actor has also won Screen Awards, Guild awards, ITA awards.

Screen Awards

• The Screen awards are held to honour the professionals of Bollywood. 
• The awards were introduced by the Screen film magazine of the Indian Express Group.

ITA Awards

• The Indian Television Academy Awards, also called the ITA awards organized by the Indian Television Academy.

About Sushant Singh Rajput

• The actor was born in Patna. He was a mechanical engineer from Delhi College of Engineering. 
• He dropped out of college pursuing acting as his career. 
• He was a winner of National Olympiad in Physics.

NITI Aayog

• Indian think tank NITI Aayog had signed him to promote Women Entrepreneurship Platform. 
• The platform is a unified access portal that brings together women from different regions of India to realize their entrepreneurship aspirations. 
• The idea of the platform was framed at the 8^th Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES).