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- India
Burial or cremation: Muslim, Hindu sons clash over mother’s last rites
Patna: On the death of their mother, two sons belonging to different faiths clashed over her last rites. While one son offers namaz at the mosque, the other visits the temple. One…
- Kashmir
Emotional scenes at cremation of slain Kashmiri pandit in Jammu
Jammu: Emotions ran high as the mortal remains of a slain Kashmiri pandit were consigned to flames here on Sunday with the grief-stricken community expressing anger against the alleged failure of the…
- India
Mulayam to be cremated in Sefai on Tuesday
Lucknow: The mortal remains of the late Samajwadi patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav will be taken to his native village Sefai in Etawah later on Monday. In a tweet, the Samajwadi Party informed…
- India
Lakhimpur Kheri: Dalit teens cremated after kin promised aid from state
The two Dalit girls, ages 15 and 17, who were allegedly raped and hung from a tree in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri area, were cremated on Thursday. Family members of the two…
- India
MP: Denied hearse, man takes mother’s body on bike for cremation
Bhopal: A man was forced to carry his mother’s body on his motorcycle for over 50 km after a government-run hospital denied a hearse van to him in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol district.…
- India
Punjabi Singer Sidhu Moose Wala cremated at his native village
Mansa: Late Punjabi Singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moose Wala was cremated on Tuesday at his native village Moosa in the Mansa district of Punjab. His body was taken from Mansa Civil…
- India
MP: Authorities destroy samadhis in Gen Rawat’s in-laws home
Bhopal: Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Bipin Rawat’s brother-in-law Yash Vardhan Singh on Tuesday alleged that on the day when the last rites of the top military officer were performed, some…
- India
UP: Rising water level in Ganga River exposes more graves
Prayagraj: Incessant rains and rising water level in the Ganga river have brought back haunting images of floating bodies in the waters. The increasing water level has exposed the bodies buried in the…
- India
Muslim group in TN performs last rites of COVID-19 victims of other faiths
Chennai: During the COVID-19 pandemic, volunteers of the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam have come forward to bury people who died of COVID-19 and whose family does not have the resources to conduct…
- Top Stories
Muslim woman turns cremator at a Hindu crematorium
Thiruvananthapuram: Subina Rahman is a 29-year-old Commerce graduate with a husband and an eight-year-old son and she is now doing a job which most people will shy away from. She is busy working…
- Bangalore
Faith no bar, help just a call away
Businessman Kashif Pasha’s help in organising final rites of a Hindu woman from a helpless North Indian family in Bengaluru has made headlines in the City’s dailies and earned him encomiums from…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP: Tablighis perform last rites of 560 COVID-19 victims
Tirupati: When 26-year-old K. Damodar Reddy lost his battle to COVID-19 at SVIMS Hospital in this temple town, his blood relatives did not come forward to perform his funeral, but a group of…
- India
Saddened by father’s death due to COVID-19, daughter jumps on his funeral pyre
Barmer: In a tragic incident, a 34-year-old woman sustained severe burns here after she jumped on the funeral pyre of her father, who died after contracting COVID-19, police said on Wednesday. Damodardas Sharda…
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UP: Muslim youths help cremate 60-year-old Hindu man who died of COVID-19
Balrampur: A group of Muslim youth helped cremate a 60-year-old Hindu man, who died of COVID-19 here, as his family members were hesitant to go ahead with the ritual for fear of…
- Telangana
Meet the Muslim youth cremating bodies of COVID-19 victims in Telangana
Hyderabad: At a time when even family members and close friends are turning their backs on those dying of COVID-19 due to fear of getting infected, a group of young heroes from…
