The Supreme Court has issued directions for ensuring burial or cremation of bodies lying in mortuaries in Manipur, where ethnic clashes had...

Burials or cremations of former chief ministers of the state are usually held with full state honours after the performance of religious ri...

The tribunal sought to know whether any criminal case was registered and any prosecution was launched against any person for violation of t...

The bench said the petitioner, a Delhi-based NGO trust, has referred in the plea about recommendations of the National Human Rights Commiss...

The data, gathered from site visits and logs reviewed by Reuters, shows the facilities buried or cremated more than 6,520 bodies in April 2...

The past few weeks have been harrowing for the 49-year-old funeral arranger at Delhi’s Sarai Kale Khan cremation ground. There were days wh...

Tradition plays a big role behind people dumping the bodies in the Ganga, said MP Singh, the district magistrate of Ghazipur where at least...

A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh issued a notice to the Centre, Delhi government, National Disaster Management ...

Aimed at relieving the pressure on crematoriums and burial grounds, Karnataka government on Wednesday had permitted cremation or burial of ...

"At this rate, we will run short of land in a month," he tells at the Qabristan Ahle Islam near ITO. "Since last week, on an average 10-15 ...

Telangana and Karnataka are also creating facilities for the scientific disposal of used personal protection equipment (PPE) kits worn by h...

A 50-year-old woman had allegedly committed suicide in a quarantine centre in the state capital Agartala. Tripura’s Law Minister and govern...

The move comes in the wake of public protests against the burial of two doctors who died of COVID-19 in the city recently, with one of them...

A division bench of Justice HS Thangkhiew and Justice W Diengdoh said any person, local body or Dorbar Shnong (local chieftain) or organisa...

Cremation of the deceased instead of traditional practice of burials is gaining increasing acceptance in China with nearly 50 per cent of t...

China is promoting eco-friendly burials ahead of the traditional Qingming holiday, when Chinese pay respect to their dead ancestors.

Andhra Pradesh government has drawn up a plan to distribute one lakh acres of land to landless poor in the state on November 1, a state min...