KARACHI: Many family members of deceased Hindus whose ashes were kept in urns for years with them or at the Hindu cremation ...

trampling those waiting for their turn to bathe in the river. Wednesday was a sacred day in the six-week Hindu festival, and authorities expected a record 100 million devotees to engage in a ritual ...

Varanasi is also considered the holiest place on earth for Hindu cremation because the ... parade en masse to bathe in the waters of the Ganges River, followed by the millions of pilgrims who ...

Smouldering funeral pyres line the Ganges river in India's holy city of Varanasi ... just a minute's walk away. There the cremation fires blaze nonstop, as they have done since time immemorial.

Do you think it might be cremation? The uses are completely ... has been working to save an unusual mammal that lives in the Ganges: the blind river dolphin. DR SINHA: Actually there used to ...