New York, July 30 - Dharam Shourie, PTI correspondent in New York who covered the United Nations for two decades, died here following a brief illness. He was 72.

Shourie was editor of the Press Trust of India (PTI) before being posted to the United Nations as its correspondent in 1989.

Family members said Shourie was ill for the last two months and was in a hospital for over a fortnight. He died Wednesday evening due to multiple complications in the last few days.

The genial and affable Shourie had become a fixture for all India-centred events at the UN and in New York and was popular in the Indian community and the South Asian journalist fraternity.

Born in Lahore on March 1, 1937, Shourie had his initial education in Shimla and Ambala after his family moved to India following partition.