News updates: Security beef-up in Shivaji Park for Lata Mangeshkar funeral

Live news updates: Lata Mangeshkar, a singer who defined music and melody for generations of Indians has died, said her younger sister on Sunday.

She was 92 and is survived by her four siblings. Mangeshkar was hospitalised on Jan. 11 after she was detected with Covid-19. "She is no more. She died in the morning," Usha Mangeshkar, the singer's younger sister, told PTI.

"I am anguished beyond words," Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote on Twitter.

"The kind and caring Lata Didi has left us. She leaves a void in our nation that cannot be filled. The coming generations will remember her as a stalwart of Indian culture, whose melodious voice had an unparalleled ability to mesmerise people."

Modi will attend Mangeshkhar’s funeral at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park crematorium at 6.30pm.

Mangeshkar began singing in her teens, and in a career spanning 73 years sang more than an estimated 15,000 songs in 36 languages. Other Bollywood personalities and politicians offered consolations.