The Union Minister, speaking to reporters here, said the law and order situation in Kerala was "bad" and that is why these killings were happening.
CDS (Chief of Defence Staff) Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat’s mortal remains have been kept at their official residence in New Delhi for now, where from they will taken to Brar crematorium in Delhi cantonment at around 2pm.
'Tree burials' cost significantly less than traditional funerary practices, which is an important consideration for many Japanese people struggling to support multiple generations.
Grief, as we know today from psychological research is not a single emotion but a process, a series of stages that follow one another.
The court said it was a 'great relief' that the family has received the remains so that they can cremate it according to Hindu rites.
United Sikhs has started distributing oxygen concentrators in Delhi, Punjab, and Karnataka.
Our contact number is circulating across the hospitals and crematoriums and we are continuously getting calls from families, says Pritam Singh, director of United Sikhs.
Rumblings even in RSS on the Modi government’s disastrous handling of the second wave of Covid infection.
The court was hearing a case in which the mortal remains of the Hindu man were wrongly buried in Saudi Arabia as per Muslim rites due to incorrect translation of his religion on death certificate.
Mohammad Shareef, also known as 'messiah of lawarais lashen', has been bed-ridden at his home in Mohalla Khirki Ali Beg in Ayodhya.
Contractor Ajay Tyagi went into hiding after news of the collapse spread and was later nabbed near the Ganga canal bridge of Sathedi village
Chand’s family is worried about his safety, but they are also aware that this is the only way for them to survive at present.
The Superintendent of Police of Karbi Anglong district in Assam, Debojit Deuri, and his security guards carried the body of the Covid-19 victim and cremated it on Tuesday, after the locals had refused to cremate deceased.
The Delhi High Court had initiated on its own a PIL to deal with backlog in disposing COVID-19 bodies, saying if this was the correct situation then it was 'highly dissatisfactory and violative of the rights of the dead'.
As the state borders are difficult to cross through due to the lockdown, many people are unable to immerse the ashes of their loved ones. At Delhi's Lodhi Road Crematorium, Pandit Dharam Vir has the onerous task of looking after the urns containing the ashes of the deceased.
Eventually, he performed the last rites of his father on a government land near his house.
According to official sources, the operation of electric-powered crematoriums has become very expensive as the power consumption is high and uninterrupted power supply is inevitable for it to keep the furnace pre-heated to burn the bodies.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.