We study the analogue of the Oppenheimer-Snyder model of a collapsing sphere of homogeneous dust on the Randall-Sundrum type brane. We show that the collapsing sphere has the Vaidya radiation envelope which is followed by the brane analogue of the Schwarzschild solution described by the Reissner-Nordström metric. The collapsing solution is matched to the brane generalized Vaidya solution and which in turn is matched to the Reissner-Nordström metric. The mediation by the Vaidya radiation zone is the new feature introduced by the brane. Since the radiating mediation is essential, we are led to the remarkable conclusion that a collapsing sphere on the brane does indeed, in contrast to general relativity, radiate null radiation.PACS numbers: 04.50.+h; 04.70.Bw; 98.80.Cq; 11.25.Mj The seat of high energy modifications to general relativity (GR) would be the neighbourhoods of singularities occurring in gravitational collapse and the cosmological big-bang explosion. The study of situations leading to such singular events would therefore be most pertinent in the models that claim to incorporate such modifications. The Randall-Sundrum (RS) brane world model [1] is one such model which has currently attracted great attention and activity. In this paper, we wish to study gravitational collapse of a homogeneous dust sphere on the RS type brane. In GR, it is described by the wellknown Oppenheimer-Snyder (OS) model [2] in which the interior of collapsing sphere is given by the Friedmann metric while the exterior is the static Schwarzschild solution. The two are matched continuously on the moving boundary. This reflects the well-known classical result that a collapsing sphere does not radiate. In contrast it turns out that a collapsing dust sphere on the brane would require in general a non static exterior [3], and that could be the Vaidya radiating solution on the brane [4]. That is, a collapsing sphere must have a radiation envelope described by the brane analogue of the Vaidya radiating solution [4], which could finally be matched to the brane analogue of the Schwarzschild solution described by the Reissner-Nordström (RN) metric [5]. We shall thus establish that the analogue of the OppenheimerSnyder collapse on the brane is a Vaidya radiating sphere.String theory and M-theory represent one of the routes to find a covering theory for GR, which would possibly be a theory of quantum gravity. In this approach, gravitation becomes a higher dimensional interaction with the 4-D conventional GR as its low energy limit. In the brane * Electronic address: megang@dit.ac.za † Electronic address: nkd@iucaa.ernet.in world scenario, the matter fields remain confined to the 3-brane, which is our 4-D Universe we live in, while gravity can propagate in higher dimensional spacetime called the bulk. In the RS brane model, gravity is localized on the brane by the curvature of the bulk spacetime which is an Einstein space with negative Λ. What essentially happens is that gravitational field gets "reflected" back onto the brane through the Wey...