Hyderabad: "Mar ke bhi chain na paya to kidhar jayenge? (If there is no peace in death, then where will I go?" This Urdu couplet from Ibrahim Zauq aptly sums up the problem of the dead in Hyderabad. In this booming metropolis, where thousands struggle for a place to live in, even death offers no solution. Rapid urbanisation, burgeoning population, escalating land prices and shrinking graveyards due to encroachments have...
12:58 PM, May 15, 2012
London: The owner of a popular Indian eatery joint in Kent has bought an unusual vehicle to ferry his curries around the world - an Iraqi fighter jet. Rob Abdul, who owns Cafe Taj in Gravesend, Kent has started taking flying lessons. Abdul came up with the idea with a pilot friend, has earmarked about 35,000 pounds for buying and restoring the plane, which Abdul says is needed because his...
07:54 PM, Jan 27, 2012
London: Vanessa Redgrave was hailed at a Hollywood film academy tribute Sunday, praised as an actress and an activist by A-list friends including Ralph Fiennes, Meryl Streep and James Earl Jones. More than 30 years after she shocked the Oscars ceremony with a fiercely political acceptance speech, Redgrave was the subject of an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences retrospective - its first to an actor in Europe. "I...
12:15 PM, Nov 14, 2011
Mumbai: UTV has entered into a deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution to bring popular Hollywood movies dubbed in Hindi and Telugu on the small screen. Through the exclusive long-term telecast rights deal, the company's primary action movie channels UTV Action and UTV Action Telugu - will have access to 60 and 50 titles a year respectively from the Warner Bros. library, Sameer Ganapathy, Business Head, UTV Action and...
12:22 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Tel Aviv-Jaffa: Dozens of gravestones were desecrated at adjacent Muslim and Christian cemeteries overlooking the sea at Jaffa and a fire-bomb was thrown at a nearby synagogue, on Saturday, Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. At least five tombs were smashed and some 20 others sprayed with Hebrew graffiti, including "Death to Arabs" and "Price Tag," a slogan used by militant Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and...
02:10 PM, Oct 09, 2011
New Delhi: In what is being seen as an attempt by China to justify its involvement in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK), it's state run news agency Xinhua has picked up the issue of unmarked graves that's rocked Kashmir. The news agency came out with a report that paints a gruesome picture of a burial ground filled with unmarked graves in Poonch. Quoting local sources, the report says bodies - some...
07:12 AM, Oct 03, 2011
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Tuesday witnessed uproarious scenes after Opposition PDP sought discussion on the issue of nameless graves. The members of the Opposition, PDP, walked towards the Speaker's podium while demanding that an adjournment motion be brought on the issue, following which they staged a walkout. Later, speaking on the issue, state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that people needed answers and that the government had...
11:30 AM, Sep 27, 2011
Tripoli: Libya's interim authorities said on Sunday they had found a mass grave in the capital containing the bodies of more than 1,270 people killed by Muammar Gaddafi's security forces in a 1996 massacre at Tripoli's Abu Salim prison. The uprising that toppled Gaddafi last month was ignited by protests linked to the Abu Salim massacre. In February, families of inmates killed at the south Tripoli prison in 1996 demonstrated...
10:41 PM, Sep 25, 2011
Galaa: In a grove of pine trees near this mountain village, residents have dug up the remains of 35 bound and blindfolded men who they say were shot at close range by Muammar Gaddafi's military. Dozens of miles away, a search team has exhumed the bodies of 18 detainees who died on a hot summer day while locked in a shipping container by Gaddafi guards. As Libyans cope with the...
08:33 AM, Sep 10, 2011
A human rights group has found over 2000 unnamed bodies in graveyards spread across three districts in Kashmir. ...
10:31 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Srinagar: A human rights group in Kashmir has found over 2000 unnamed bodies in graveyards spread across three districts, bringing hope for the families of scores of people who have gone missing in Kashmir in the past two decades. DNA tests will now be carried out to gives these families closure. Tahira and Tariq Ahmad have been married for 10 years and have three children. But Ahmad's sudden disappearance in...
11:16 AM, Aug 29, 2011
Srinagar: Opposition People's Democratic Party on Monday demanded a high-level probe by an impartial agency to establish identities of the persons buried in unmarked graves in Kashmir. DNA tests of unidentified bodies should be conducted without wasting any time to give justice to the families of the victims, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said in a statement in Srinagar. She was reacting to the report of the investigative wing of the...
08:37 PM, Aug 22, 2011
New Delhi: More than 2,000 corpses have been found buried in several unmarked graves in Indian Kashmir, believed to be victims of the divided region's separatist revolt, a government human rights commission said in a report. The graves were found in dozens of villages near the Line of Control, the military line dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. "At 38 places visited in north Kashmir, there were 2,156 unidentified dead...
11:31 PM, Aug 21, 2011
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Soaring real estate prices have made the cost of tombs in graveyards and vaults in churches skyrocket. ...
12:30 PM, Jun 09, 2010
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