Indra Lohani

Lohani's demise occurred possibly due to a cardiac arrest, around 8 pm on 16 January 2009. Doctors had reported of no signs of external injuries on Lohani´s body. Lohani was suffering from a liver condition medically known as fatty liver and was also a blood pressure patient. Earlier, on the day of his demise, Lohani had complained of discomfort while visiting a temple with his daughter and had fainted for a while. After regaining consciousness, he had asked locals to drop him at home. He died while being rushed from his house to the hospital. He was brought dead at Norvic International Hospital in Kathmandu at 8:10 p.m.

During the period of monarchy, before 2006 revolutions, his show in the government-controlled Nepal Television started getting heavily censored due to his straight questions to the politicians in his interviews. This led him to quit the show at Nepal Television, but soon starting the show in a privately controlled television, Kantipur Television, under the name Kantipur Bahas. The show still remained a favorite to its viewers and attracted even more attention after the peoples' revolution of 2006 when people had renewed interests in the country's changing politics. He is also known as a social worker and reformer.

Lohani was married to Sushma Dubedi on 24 April 1999. The couple has two daughters, Samragi and Subhangi.

Indra Lohani (Nepali: इन्द्र लोहनी; 17 April 1968 – 16 January 2009) was a prominent Nepalese lawyer, political talk-show host, and news reporter, mostly known for his television political talk-show Bahas (Nepali word for discussion) aired on Nepal Television and later on Kantipur Television as Kantipur Bahas, until his demise.