'Dead infant' comes to life at cremation ground

Sirsa: In a bizarre incident, a 45-day-old infant declared "dead" by a doctor started breathing, a few seconds before its burial at a cremation ground here today.
"The baby boy was immediately rushed to a hospital where he is breathing normally and is being given intravenous drips," his father Vinod Kumar told reporters. Read More................''Dead'' infant ''comes to life'' at cremation ground

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Parents wait for 3 years to cremate son

Three years after his death, all that remains of Chukkan Nishad's body is a skeleton that lies on the terrace of a police station in Ahraula Village waiting to be cremated.

The 22-year-old had gone missing in 2007. A few days later, a body was found in the sugarcane field close to the village. Chukkan's family identified it as his. But the police insisted on a DNA test to verify their claim. Now, all that is left him are his bones - the DNA test still not conducted. Read More................Parents wait for 3 years to cremate son

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4 held for feeding on half-cremated body

ROHTAK: In a gut-wrenching case, four persons in Palwal town were reportedly caught feeding on a partially-cremated human body. According to sources, horrified by what he saw in the night, a watchman of the cremation ground raised an alarm. Soon a crowd gathered and thrashed the cannibals before handing them over to the police. Read More................4 held in Haryana for feeding on half-cremated body

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Man cremates father's body in house, mother dies in blaze

In a bizarre incident, a man cremated the body of his father in the house itself and locked the door from outside leaving his mother inside, who was also engulfed in the flames, the police said Friday. Read more...............Man cremates father's body in house, mother dies in blaze

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Court to decide, Cremation or burial?

In West Bengal State of India, a 70-year-old woman's body has been lying in a Kolkata morgue for the past one week as her children have approached the Calcutta High Court to decide whether she should be buried or cremated.

A Hindu by birth, Pari Mallik, a resident of Chhoto Mallikpara in Howrah, had married a Muslim after the death of her first husband -- a Hindu.

Pari died on Oct 30 and her children from her first marriage want her last rites to be performed according to Hindu rituals while her second husband and daughter want a burial, local reports said.

Both the families have now approached the Calcutta High Court seeking to perform her last rites according to their own religious practices.

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Advance booking for Crematorium

In the city of Nagpur in Maharashtra State of India Municipal Corporation which controls the crematoriums is introducing an advance booking system for cremations.

As per the scheme, interested parties shall have to make a call for reservation for the platform where corpses are burnt for a three-hour duration, Additional Municipal Commissioner, Atul Patne said.

The phone call will ensure a proper platform at a select crematorium of your choice and the civic body will allocate shops for supply of fuel and firewood for cremations, Patne said. Read more...............Now advance booking for crematorium in Nagpur

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