Sarabjit Singh was cremated with full state honours on Friday in his native village Bhikiwind in Punjab. ...
08:42 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: The mortal remains of former Chief Justice of India JS Verma, who headed a panel to frame a tough law to combat crimes against women, were on Tuesday consigned to flames in the presence of prominent political leaders and those from legal fraternity. The funeral pyre was lit by Verma's grandson Amirudh at the Lodhi crematorium where former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanian, a close associate, joined in performing...
09:59 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Former Prime Minister IK Gujral was on Saturday cremated here with full state honours in the presence of the country's top leadership, including President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Amid prayers and a 21-gun salute, his body was consigned to flames at Smriti Sthal on the banks of Yamuna where Vice President Hamid Ansari and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi were also present. ...
04:28 PM, Dec 01, 2012
Former prime minister IK Gujral's funeral will take place on Saturday at 3 pm in the national capital. Gujral passed away on Friday evening after a prolonged illness. He was 92. ...
09:44 AM, Dec 01, 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
Hyderabad: The last rites of Telugu Desam Party's senior leader and former central minister K Yerran Naidu, who died in a road accident in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam district early on Friday, will be performed on Saturday. A pall of gloom descended on Srikakulam, the native district of Naidu. Hundreds of mourners gathered at his village Nimmada, about 30 km from Srikakulam town. Naidu's family decided to postpone the cremation to...
10:48 AM, Nov 03, 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: Former chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), K Sudarshan, who passed away on Saturday following a heart attack, will be cremated in Nagpur on Sunday. He was 81. The cremation ceremony will be attended by BJP leaders like LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari and Arun Jaitley. Sudarshan gave up his post of the RSS chief in 2009 following ill health. In August this year, he went...
08:31 AM, Sep 16, 2012
Los Angeles: Tony Scott has been cremated, and his widow will keep his remains at their Los Angeles-area home. The information is included on Scott's death certificate. The document doesn't include a formal determination of Scott's cause of death. Coroner's officials expect it will take several weeks to finalize their investigation, but they are treating his case as a probable suicide. The Top Gun director jumped from a bridge into...
06:29 PM, Aug 28, 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
Kannur: The mortal remains of eminent Malayalam writer and critic Sukumar Azhikode, who dominated Kerala's cultural scene as a literary critic for over five decades, were consigned to flames at Payyambalam beach with full state honours in Kannur on Wednesday. Union ministers, state ministers, government officials and a large number of the public were present at the funeral to pay their last respect to the departed soul. Earlier, members of...
04:25 PM, Jan 25, 2012
London: Dev Anand, who ruled the hearts of millions of film enthusiasts for over six decades, was on Saturday bid a tearful adieu as his mortal remains were consigned to flames amid the tunes of some of his most memorable songs 'Abhi Na Jao Chor ke' and 'Gata Rahe Mera Dil'. The funeral ceremony was joined in by a large number of people, including his family and close friends like...
07:20 PM, Dec 10, 2011
London: A fitting memorial service for Bollywood legend Dev Anand, who passed away in London last week, will be held at the Mehboob Studio in Mumbai on December 15, his son Suneil Anand said on Thursday. "After the funeral here on Saturday, I will be flying to Mumbai with his ashes and there a fitting memorial service will be held for him at the Mehboob Studio," Suneil told reporters at...
11:22 PM, Dec 08, 2011
Karimnagar: The body of slain Maoist leader Kishenji will be cremated at Peddapalli near Karimnagar on Sunday, his family members said on Saturday. Kishenji was killed in an encounter in Barishol forest in West Bengal on Thursday. When contacted, the family members said that the body of Kishenji would be brought to Peddapalli, his hometown, on Saturday night and will be kept at his house till Sunday morning. Meanwhile, large...
08:13 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Tezpur: A young girl who was presumed to have died with the body cremated two days ago turned up on Friday at the Tezpur police station in Assam's Sonitpur district. Nineteen-year-old Indrani Bora of neighbouring Nagaon district fled with her friend Mukut Ali from Guwahati to Dhubri district on October 17, police sources said. The girl's family alleged that she was kidnapped. On October 26 a female body with marks...
06:39 PM, Oct 28, 2011
London: A UK-based company has developed what it claims is probably the world's best green alternative to cremation -- an "alkaline hydrolysis" unit, which has been installed at a funeral home in the US state of Florida. The unit by Glasgow-based Resomation Ltd works by dissolving the body in heated alkaline water; it has been installed at Anderson-McQueen funeral home in St Petersburg, the 'BBC' reported. The makers claim the...
12:37 PM, Sep 01, 2011
