Cremation is a common practice in Hindu and Buddhist traditions for disposing of the dead. The body is placed on the top of a large pile of wood and the pyre is set on fire to cremate the deceased ...

The Roman Catholic Church still teaches that bodily burial is preferable to cremation, since “like Christ in His Resurrection ...

An excerpt from the story ‘Flower of Evil’, by Satchidananda Routray, in ‘Maguni’s Bullock Cart and Other Classic Odia ...

The baby was born in the aftermath of Myanmar's earthquake and given to the flames of Buddhist funeral rites two days later, ...

Though he lived in the United States for much of his life, Ssali hailed from the Batimbo clan—one of the prominent clans of ...

On 31 March 2020, a dark chapter in Sri Lanka’s history began to unfold, as the Muslim community was thrust into an agonising ...

Amber Paige Laudermilk, 34, is accused of mutilating the body of a dead sex offender in Houston ... Miss Laudermilk was performing a cremation of a body of an alleged sex offender that during ...

What appeared to be a routine accident turned out to be a conspiracy hatched by a man, his father and an advocate to siphon ...

A wanted criminal was shot dead in an encounter with Police near Velammal College in Madurai on Monday, the officials said.

Authorities said the first witness saw her knife Rodriguez twice in the groin in the cremation room - and ... who is accused of viciously attacking his dead body. No matter what one thinks of ...