Abu Dhabi, Aug. 2 -- A 55-year-old United Arab Emirates (UAE) based Indian expaton Friday died while celebrating his daughter's CBSE board exam result, local media reported.

Sharjah resident Jose Varghese collapsed within hours after hearing the news of good grades by his daughter studying in his hometown of the southern Indian state of Kerala.

Jose was a chartered accountant (CA). He had been a UAE resident for about twenty years and ran a business with a partnership.

"His wife is a teacher in Kerala. She and his two children live over there," Father Abin Baby Oomelil, vicar of St. Mary's Jacobite Syrian Soonoro Patriarchal Cathedral in Sharjah, told Gulf News on Saturday.

Jose and his family were delighted to learn that his daughter...