New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Ashes of Covid-19 victims who were cremated are piling up at the Ghazipur crematorium here as relatives are hesitant to collect them due to the fear of contracting infection, said the chief priest and cremation manager.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 1: Gyandeo Prabhakar Ware, a head constable at Mumbai's Tardeo police station, has cremated 50,000 unclaimed dead bodies in the past 20 years and 50 COVID positive dead bodies during the coronavirus crisis, according to a certificate of appreciation issued b
New Delhi [India], April 19 (ANI): Amid the spike in the COVID-19 deaths in Delhi, some people were forced to perform the last rites of their relatives at the parking of cremation ground in Ghazipur in the national capital.
New Delhi [India], April 17 (ANI): Popular Tamil actor and comedian Vivek, who passed away earlier today at the age of 59, was laid to rest on Saturday in Chennai with state honours.
Durg (Chhattisgarh) [India], April 12 (ANI): The rising number of deaths due to COVID-19 in Chhattisgarh's Durg district has affected the people living near the 'muktidham' in Ramnagar and Risali, as around 50 to 60 bodies are cremated throughout the day here.
New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): The Congress party paid tribute to veteran leader Captain Satish Sharma who passed away on February 17. He was 73.
Guwahati (Assam) [India], November 27 (ANI): Congress leader and former Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi was cremated with full state honours in Guwahati on Thursday. He had passed away on November 23.
Charkhi Dadri (Haryana) [India], November 16 (ANI): Former Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Chandrawati was cremated at her native village Dalawas in Charkhi Dadri district with full state honour and as per the COVID-19 guidelines on Sunday.
Hathras (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 13 (ANI): A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is probing the Hathras incident, reached the spot where the victim of the alleged gang rape was cremated on September 30.
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 30 (ANI): Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday accused the state government of conducting the last rites of the Hathras victim without her family's permission "to erase the evidence".
Tarn Taran (Punjab) [India], Aug 31 (ANI): Naib Subedar Rajwinder Singh, who lost his life during a ceasefire violation by Pakistan across the Line of Control (LoC) in Nowshera on Sunday was cremated at his native place in Tarn Taran with military honours on Monday.
Kathmandu [Nepal], Aug 19 (ANI): Nepal's National Poet Madhav Prasad Ghimire was cremated at Pashupati Aryaghaton on Wednesday morning with State honours.