Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party founder Ram Vilas Paswan was consigned to flames on the banks of the Ganga at Digha here on Saturday amid chants of “dharti gunje aasmaan, Ram Vilas Paswan...

The South African Hindu Maha Sabha (SAHMS) has said funeral is a time to honour the departed with “sanskaar and discipline” and should not be used as “an opportunity to flaunt wealth...

However, the calculated effort to appropriate Pranab had started while he was still in Rashtrapati Bhavan when Modi would flaunt his special bond with the President. Bhagwat, too, paid a number of vis...

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The Dhanbad district administration in Jharkhand had to impose prohibitory orders under CrPC Section 144 at a village on Sunday after residents objected to the preparation of a plot for performing the...

A funeral in Giridih proved that communal harmony is still a cherished value. When Lakhia Devi, the septuagenarian mother of Jogeshwar Turi died in Giridih on Saturday afternoon, his Muslim neighbours...

Former finance minister Arun Jaitley was cremated with full state honours on Sunday in the presence of a large number of leaders cutting across political lines.The 66-year-old senior BJP leader had pa...

Vijay Laxmi fainted just before her husband’s funeral procession started in Deoria.Supriya, not yet into her teens, lost consciousness while lighting her father’s pyre.Prateek, all of four years o...

The affection and popularity he enjoyed from ordinary Goans was on display as hundreds of common folks, and his party workers lined up to pay tributes to Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar, who died ...

Governor Satya Pal Malik on Sunday defended the communication curbs in Jammu and Kashmir, saying “If there’s no telephone for 10 days, so be it” and stressing that this was preferable to the los...