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burial ground news

Punjab: Dhuri residents protest after admn allows burial on govt land

Residents of Jagatpura, Dhuri , holding a protest on Thursday. (HT)
chandigarh news
Published on Feb 06, 2026 04:30 am IST

Odisha police probe as locals allege bodies disappearing from burial ground

Police have launched an investigation to find the missing bodies
india news
Published on Jul 26, 2025 04:05 pm IST

50 well-preserved Viking Age skeletons unearthed in Denmark

50 well-preserved Viking Age skeletons unearthed in Denmark
world news
Published on Oct 15, 2024 12:08 pm IST

BMC to get Bandra plot reserved for cemeteries after 8-yr legal battle

The BMC reserved the plot in the development plan for a cemetery each for Muslims, Hindus and Christians measuring 3,000 square metre and a municipal dispensary measuring 2,300 square metre (Hindustan Times)
mumbai news
Updated on Mar 30, 2024 09:09 am IST

Govandi’s Rafi Nagar cemetery now officially open

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mumbai news
Updated on Mar 06, 2024 07:12 am IST

In some Tamil Nadu villages, caste bias overshadows death

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india news
Updated on Sept 21, 2023 05:16 pm IST

How a burial ground of Dalits in this Gujarat village turns into a battle ground

Police have set up a temporary police post in Dalod village in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad district. (HT Photo)
india news
Updated on Sept 01, 2023 11:48 am IST

Dead rest uneasy as graveyards run out of space

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The Pankesha Baba graveyard in Ghatkopar with an area of 1.5 acre, caters to a Muslim population of over 20 lakh, extending to areas of Pantanagar, Golibar, Vikhroli and Powai. They have requested the civic body to join the recreational ground adjacent to the cemetery for more space. (HT Photo)
mumbai news
Updated on Aug 17, 2023 04:49 pm IST

Dutch archaeologists find 4,000-year-old shrine

A view shows the 4,000-year-old Stonehenge-like sanctuary discovered in Tiel.
art culture
Published on Jun 23, 2023 10:16 am IST

This Assam town will not allow burial of those who died due to drug consumption

A graveyard (Representative image)
india news
Updated on May 19, 2023 04:45 pm IST

Taliban reveal burial place of founder Mullah Omar, nine years after death

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP Sunday that senior leaders of the movement attended a ceremony at his gravesite. (AFP PHOTO/Taliban Government)
world news
Published on Nov 07, 2022 01:34 am IST

MCD bulldozers raze 50 shops near Delhi’s largest burial ground

Jadid Qabristan Ahle Islam, at ITO in New Delhi, served as a designated burial ground for those who died due to Covid-19. (Photo by Sanjeev Verma/ Hindustan Times)
delhi news
Updated on Jun 23, 2022 12:56 am IST

Save Ambala’s war cemetery, MP KJ Alphons writes to Haryana CM

With missing grave angels and damaged monuments the Ambala Cemetery is virtually in ruins.
chandigarh news
Updated on Nov 23, 2020 12:12 am IST

Families can perform last rites of Covid-19 victims: Calcutta high court

In case there is nobody to claim a body, it should be cremated or buried with dignity at the state expense, the order said.
india news
Updated on Sept 17, 2020 12:43 am IST

Fewer bodies at crematoriums as Covid death count drops in Delhi

According to Saturday’s government health bulletin data, the total number of deaths due to Covid-19 was 10 deaths in the past 24 hours.
delhi news
Updated on Aug 16, 2020 07:05 am IST

AIIMS sacks one, suspends another for swapping of dead bodies

An ambulance with four corpses – including that of Anjum B – left from the hospital on Tuesday afternoon.
delhi news
Updated on Jul 09, 2020 08:33 am IST

Muslims, Christians get graveyards in Mohali after two-decade wait

Punjab cabinet minister Balbir Singh Sidhu inaugurating graveyards in Sector 73 on Tuesday.
chandigarh news
Updated on Jul 07, 2020 08:22 pm IST

Delhi govt issues guidelines for handling bodies of Covid-19 casualties

Guidelines for handling bodies of patients who died of the coronavirus disease have been issued.
india news
Updated on Mar 26, 2020 04:34 pm IST

Centrum Park residents protest proposed burial ground near colony

This made the district development and panchayat office to choose the location in Sector 103 despite people’s opposition.
gurugram news
Updated on Aug 20, 2019 02:35 am IST

Woman, live-in partner held for murder of her 4-year-old son in Delhi

he police said the two confessed to the crime and disclosed that Ravikar wanted to marry Komal, but did not accept her son, Saksham.
india news
Updated on Jun 02, 2019 07:56 am IST

Telangana’s Karimnagar town to offer ‘funeral for Re 1’ for poor families

Sardar Ravinder Singh announced that the municipal corporation will bear all the expenses for the last rites of the dead irrespective of their caste or religion.
india news
Updated on May 21, 2019 04:06 pm IST

Film review: Pet Sematary is a King-sized letdown, says Rashid Irani

The characterisation is, without exception, one-dimensional; the performances, mediocre.
entertainment
Published on Apr 12, 2019 03:56 pm IST

Communal clash leaves 9 injuredin Ahmedabad

Police said the two groups attacked each other with sticks and pelted stones.
india news
Published on Apr 01, 2019 06:39 am IST

Eleven arrested for burying man in church compound in Thane

Parishioners said they had to bury the 95-year-old in the church compound owing to lack of burial space.
mumbai news
Published on Mar 27, 2019 03:49 pm IST

Delhi’s Lingayat community in search of a burial ground in city

A priest at a Lingayat Community Temple in Noida. The Lingayats do not cremate the dead. Instead, the departed are buried in deep pits in a sitting, meditative position.
delhi news
Published on Mar 17, 2019 05:53 am IST

Bodies dug out at graveyard in Ranchi, 1 held for twin murders

Members of the Anjuman Islamia visit the spot at the Muslim burial ground run by them where a body of a minor girl found and from the same burial ground a boys body also found few days back in Ranchi, India, on Monday, January 14, 2019.
india news
Published on Jan 15, 2019 09:22 am IST

Denied access to burial ground, SCs in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh threaten to change religion

Nearly 150 Scheduled Caste (SC) members of Huneti village in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand have threatened to change their religion if they are not provided with burial rights at a 0.96 hectare traditional land.
dehradun news
Updated on Oct 07, 2018 02:03 pm IST

Odisha: Lakhs of baby turtles buried alive as squall hits Gahirmatha

A newly-hatched baby Olive Ridley turtles makes its way to the sea as an adult turtle looks on in Ganjam district in Odisha state on April 19, 2018.
india news
Published on May 01, 2018 01:58 pm IST

Malda villagers offer lesson in harmony as Bengal simmers in Ram Navami violence

Hindu and Muslim villagers performing last rites of Arfun Bewa at Uttarpara village in Malda on Tuesday.
kolkata news
Updated on Mar 28, 2018 08:24 pm IST
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