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Delhi cop helps perform 1100 cremations, even postpones daughter's wedding
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): For more than 20 days, 56-year-old Delhi Police Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), Rakesh Kumar, has been performing the last rites of people who had no one to cremate them at the national capital's Lodhi Crematorium amid the devastating second wave of COVID-19
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Ensure right to die with dignity for Covid-19 causalities, increase number
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI): Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to Delhi government, Municipal Corporations, and others on a plea seeking an urgent increase in the number of crematorium grounds/burial sites for people who have succumbed to Covid-19.
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COVID-19: Bengaluru's Chamrajpet Crematorium displays 'Housefull' board
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 4 (ANI): The surge in COVID-19 deaths has left families scrambling to look for space to cremate their loved ones as bodies have piled up for cremation and several crematoriums are facing space shortages.
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Electric crematorium in Kathmandu overwhelmed due to increase in COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], May 3 (ANI): Nepal is seeing rise in cases of COVID-19 and reported 7,448 new cases in last 24 hours, the highest single-day rise, as the Himalayan Nation grapples with the second wave of infection.
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Frustrations mount as Covid-19 guidelines flouted in Delhi's Ghazipur crem
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 3 (ANI): As deaths due to COVID-19 continues to rise in the national capital, frustation among the public is also on the rise as protocols for the contagious disease have been flouted in Ghazipur crematorium.
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Mahua Moitra slams EC, terms Nirvachan Sadan 'new crematorium in Delhi'
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 3 (ANI): Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra on Monday took a jibe at the Election Commission, saying the EC office in the national capital -- Nirvachan Sadan - is the "new crematorium" in Delhi.
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COVID-19: Delhi Lt Governor seeks action plan to address shortage of hospi
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 3 (ANI): Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Anil Baijal on Sunday asked concerned departments and agencies to submit an action plan with regard to the availability of hospital beds, medicines, medical oxygen as well as increasing the capacity of crematoriums and graveyard
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COVID-19: Overloaded, uninterrupted pyres force Delhi civic bodies to empl
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): Amid rising COVID-19 cases and deaths in the national capital, all 26 crematoriums of Delhi are inundated with bodies and following the workload, most crematoriums have increased numbers of cremationists or helping hands to four, revising the existing capac
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Bihar's Mukti Dham crematorium witnesses surge in dead bodies
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Muzaffarpur (Bihar) [India], April 22 (ANI): The number of dead bodies being brought to the cremation ground daily has increased due to the surge in Covid cases, said the caretaker of Mukti Dham crematorium here.
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All 13 crematoriums in Bengaluru to perform final rites of COVID victims:
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 21 (ANI): Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Dr CN Ashwatha Narayana on Wednesday announced that all the 13 crematoriums in the city will perform the final rites of COVID victims.
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UP's Ghaziabad crematorium struggles amid rising COVID-19 deaths
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 18 (ANI): Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, people were seen, along with corpses, outside a crematorium in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Saturday.
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Covid victim's body ferried on tractor in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) [India], April 17 (ANI): In an apparent case of medical apathy, a COVID-19 infected body in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon was transported to the crematorium on a tractor in Dongargaon village.
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