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He was awarded the Piolet d'Or, dubbed mountaineering's Oscars, for summitting the previously unclimbed Jugal Spire in Nepal.

The pair stayed in touch and meticulously planned the journey up Jugal Spire for years before making the eight-day expedition in the spring of 2022.

"We are recording a surge in the number of irritative bronchitis infections," Jugal Kishore, the head of the medicine department at the city's Safdarjung Hospital, told PTI news agency.

The event was also co-hosted by Jugal Malani, the chair of the "Howdy, Modi" organizing committee and Bhutada's brother-in-law and Vijay Pallod, Bhutada's relative and business associate who previously traveled to India to campaign for the BJP.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government did not consult key ministries and states while imposing the world's strictest coronavirus lockdown a year ago, according to an investigation by the BBC's Jugal Purohit and Arjun Parmar.