NEW DELHI -- Delhi has been cremating so many bodies of covid-19 victims authorities are getting requests to start cutting down trees in city parks for kindling, as a record surge of illness is ...
Suka Bahadur Tamang, 60 (above) has spent half his life chopping logs that arrive at the Timber Corporation of Nepal's depot near the Pashupati temple which supplies wood for the traditional funeral ...
Reporting from Katmandu, Nepal — The family of Usha Shrestha gathered along the banks of the Bagmati River on Monday to bear her body down to the funeral pyres. They carried her on a stretcher ...
While the concern for reader sensitivities is commendable, many Indians wish that they were not shown at all. Their frustration can be gleaned from outbursts on social media and print platforms, where ...
Rep. Matt Birong, D-Vergennes, center, says his idea for open cremation goes all the way back to when he saw Star Wars Episode VI – Return of the Jedi in theaters with his late father. File photo by ...
The bodies have burned for so long at crematoriums in the western state of Gujarat that furnaces have started to melt. Firewood for funeral pyres is rationed and sparse, leaving the dead half-cremated ...
In the past day, India reported over 4,100 new COVID-19 deaths. Newlyweds Ishaan Singh and Paramjyot Kaur wanted to take a honeymoon after their wedding, but as the death toll from COVID-19 continued ...
Officials in Delhi, India, are getting requests to cut down trees in city parks for funeral pyres. India is experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases. Wood is needed to help fuel cremations as COVID-19 ...
Suka Bahadur Tamang, 60 (above) has spent half his life chopping logs that arrive at the Timber Corporation of Nepal's depot near the Pashupati temple which supplies wood for the traditional funeral ...