One large municipal dump the team visited—unofficial, but used by city trucks—was so close to the riverbank ... the main cremation site in the holy city of Varanasi, runs 24 hours a day.

Varanasi: The district magistrate, Satyendra Kumar, on Sunday issued strict directives to accelerate pace of redevelopment work at Manikarnika and Harishchandra Ghats, the famed cremation grounds ...

Varanasi: At a meeting with officials of electricity department on Tuesday, UP energy minister Arvind Kumar Sharma reviewed disruptions in power supply during last summer and assessed preparations ...

The vast majority of Vermonters opt for flame cremation. Now, a funeral home in Milton is the first in the state to use water for cremation. Jonathan Daponte of Minor Funeral Home cracks open ...

A 1,500-year-old bucket discovered in England has been identified as an ancient cremation burial vessel, experts said. The 6th-century bucket was found at Sutton Hoo, an archaeological site near ...

When a New York City social worker at the hospital suggested cremation, the grieving Latter-day Saint mother recoiled, saying she found the idea “repulsive.” Some 15 years later, Verhaaren ...

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Theo Nguyen shows off his Aqualyser machine, a water cremation device meant to provide a green alternative to cremation.Guy Heywood Increasingly popular ways to lay to rest a deceased loved one ...

forest dept has launched a search for the leopard A 23-year-old man was injured in a leopard attack at Navapura village in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi district on Friday morning, police said.

A court in Varanasi on Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking to summon leader of the opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi and take strict action against him for allegedly calling Lord Ram a mythological ...

A woman was tortured for days, killed and then put on display at the side of the river Thames in central London around 1200 years ago. The case is thought to be one of the only examples of a ...

The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested Tufail, son of Maqsood Alam and a resident of Doshipura, Jaitpura in Varanasi, on charges of spying for Pakistan, according to an official ...