burial rites

The mound burial system of the Ahom dynasty in Assam Moidams was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List under the category Cultural Property on Friday.

Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf Ahmed were buried in Kasari Masari cemetery of Prayagraj, Atiq’s wife Shaista Parveen was speculated to be present, but she didn't arrive

A new controversy has erupted in Karnataka's Mandya over sanctioning an illegal Muslim cemetery in Hosa Budhanoor village despite the absence of any Muslim population in the surrounding villages.

The Catacombs of Paris are the image of a scary world of the dead beneath the city of lights. Six to seven million human skeletons are stored there, stacked up in underground tunnels.

Interestingly, Hart Island had witnessed a spike in burials during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, although the scale was much lower than the one caused by the Wuhan Coronavirus.

Several Hindu communities in UP bury dead bodies at riverbanks, and its not a recent phenomenon as claimed by media

The Delhi High Court slammed the MEA for failing the take up the matter with Saudi Arabia, and asked them to file reply in two days

After official intervened, the family finally agreed to bury the deceased woman in the cemetery and not on government land.

The Wire columnist claims Muslims have greater claim to India than Hindus because they bury their dead, Shashi Tharoor agrees

The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs has directed the family members of deceased Chinese soldiers who killed in the Galwan Valley that they should abandon conventional burial services and instead cremate the soldiers discreetly.