
Delhi Police "forced" the family of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim to cremate her body before sunrise after she was flown here from Singapore early on Sunday, a local BJP leader alleged. ...

12:39 AM, Dec 31, 2012

The distraught mother of the 23-year-old braveheart, who succumbed to her massive injuries on Saturday that she had suffered during the brutal gangrape on December 16, collapsed and was admitted to Safdarjung Hospital after her daughter's body was taken away for last rites. ...

05:57 PM, Dec 30, 2012

Mumbai came to a virtual standstill on Sunday as Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray was laid to rest. ...

11:10 PM, Nov 18, 2012

Mumbai: Mumbai came to a virtual standstill on Sunday as Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, a Hindutva mascot and flagbearer of Marathi pride, was laid to rest and lakhs of mourners joined the Marathi leader's grieving family to bid him a tearful farewell. A sea of people, unprecedented in recent memory, descended on Mumbai streets leading from Thackeray's Bandra residence Matoshree to Shivaji Park, to catch the last glimpse of...

07:23 PM, Nov 18, 2012

New Delhi: The last rites of Brajesh Mishra, the country's first National Security Adviser who died in New Delhi following a heart ailment, will be held on Monday. His mortal remains will be consigned to flames at the Lodhi Road Crematorium at 11 am on Monday, a close relative of Mishra said. Mishra, who would have turned 84 today, was declared brought dead at the Fortis Hospital in Vasant Kunj...

11:20 AM, Sep 29, 2012

New Delhi: AK Hangal had worked with most of Bollywood's top stars during his lifetime; yet after his death, they failed to show up for his last rites. Hangal passed away on Sunday, August 26, 2012. The man who immortalised the character of Rahim Chacha in 'Sholay' lived a solitary life of illness and penury up to 2008 when his son Vijay appealed to the industry to help the veteran...

04:59 PM, Aug 27, 2012

Mumbai: Union Minister and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh's last rites were performed in his native village in Latur on Wednesday. Thousands of people including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chief Sonia Gandhi attended the funeral. The state government has declared a three-day mourning for Vilasrao who was a two time chief minister of Maharashtra. Vilasrao was also the Congress' tallest Maratha leader. He passed away in a...

05:10 PM, Aug 15, 2012

Mumbai: Hundreds of emotional fans and industry professionals bid their last adieu to Bollywood's greatest romantic hero Rajesh Khanna whose last rites were performed by his family at Mumbai's Vile Parle crematorium amid pouring rain on Thursday. In a nostalgic flashback to the 70s when Khanna was at the top of his career, weeping fans, most of them women, lined up outside his bungalow 'Aashirwad' on Carter Road from 10 ...

01:24 PM, Jul 19, 2012

Mumbai: Hundreds of emotional fans and industry professionals bid their last adieu to Bollywood's greatest romantic hero Rajesh Khanna whose last rites were performed by his family at Mumbai's Vile Parle crematorium amid pouring rain on Thursday. In a nostalgic flashback to the 70s when Khanna was at the top of his career, weeping fans, most of them women, lined up outside his bungalow 'Aashirwad' on Carter Road from 10...

01:24 PM, Jul 19, 2012

New Delhi: The legendary Shammi Kapoor's last rites just concluded in Mumbai. The who's who of Bollywood were seen there -- apart from the famous Kapoor family members. Bollywood had mourned the death of the actor who had this infectious energetic charm about him. Politicians, actors and fans united in grief at the demise of the man who was once called Indias reply to Elvis Presley. Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan ...

12:16 PM, Aug 15, 2011

Srinagar: A Muslim family has shown how communal bonds can remain intact even in times of strife in the Kashmir valley. They conducted the last rites for their neighbour a Kashmiri Pandit. The tragedy brought out the best in them. Muslim locals in downtown Chinkral Mohalla braved the curfew to conduct the last rites of their Pandit neighbour 55-year old Krishan Chand Purbi who died of a protracted illness. They...

09:03 AM, Sep 25, 2010

Jackson's body will be buried in his beloved Neverland ranch on Friday. ...

01:31 PM, Jul 01, 2009

Mini was a nurse in UK who was reportedly abused by husband. ...

10:37 AM, Jun 04, 2009

Deceased Hindus in UK are brought back to India to perform the last rites. ...

12:24 PM, Mar 26, 2009

CNN-IBN's cricket experts analyse Punjab's nervous chase against Bangalore, which they pulled off in the last over. ...

11:12 PM, May 18, 2008

Crematorium authorities deny last rites to children saying it's against Hindu law to cremate children below three. ...

12:34 PM, Apr 11, 2007