Lal, a tailor, was on Tuesday murdered by two men who had posted videos online that said they were avenging an insult to Islam.

The rally will start at 4 pm and participants will walk from the Birla Planetarium to the Mahatma Gandhi's statue in central Kolkata, they ...

The former Union minister had passed away in New Delhi after a prolonged illness. He was 82.

The body arrived at 4. 50 pm and was kept for dignitaries to pay homage. As per the protocol, the chiefs of air force, navy and the army we...

Khanna's fans thronged the streets outside the Worli crematorium to catch a last glimpse of the actor, who died of cancer at a hospital her...

There are around 30 main doms and after them come the 500-odd doms, who form the second rung of hierarchy.

The engineer's body was brought to his parents' house shortly before midnight yesterday after being flown from the US to Rajiv Gandhi Inter...

Jains offering huge sums to carry out the last rites of saints may not be new, but Sunday's bidding is believed to have broken all previous...

The body of the acclaimed music legend was taken in a procession from his Santhome residence to the Besant Nagar electric crematorium in a ...

Over 530 bodies of victims of Nepal's devastating earthquake have been cremated at the ghats of the Pashupatinath Temple here, an official ...

"We wanted to take it up suo motu but now that a petition has been filed it will go before a special social justice bench," CJ Dattu said.

Researchers have long suspected that the rituals of religious devotion in India, Nepal and South Asia, may be a factor in the level of brow...

The body of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim was flown here from Singapore early this morning and cremated within hours.

Heated exchanges between Opposition and Congress members ensued when Partap Singh Bajwa (Cong) started speaking on the issue.

An elderly man of Indian descent won the right to be cremated on a traditional funeral pyre in Britain, after a ruling by the Court of Appe...

The bodies of 20 people killed in alleged police firing during the Gujjar agitation on May 24 were on Saturday cremated en masse at a funer...

The mortal remains of Teji Bachchan, mother of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, were consigned to flames at the cremation ground in Ju...