REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha “Seeing her preserved body placed on the top of a female funeral pyre makes me feel more complete.” Paikaew Thaijaroen, 26 Cremation is widely practised in Thailand ...

A man in Jaipur delayed his mother's cremation by around two hours over ownership of her silver bangles. The man, stubborn ...

Anindito Mukherjee “The situation was nothing short of a miracle,” a witness at the funeral pyre told local news outlet ETV Bharat. “We all were in shock. He was declared dead, but there he ...

In Jaipur, a man disrupted his own mother's cremation over a piece of silver jewellery. The video of the incident is going viral all over the social media.The incident took place in the Viratnagar ...

When villagers went looking for her they found her dead on the pyre, they said. Cases of sati are very rare in India. The last incident, involving a 65-year-old woman, took place in Madhya Pradesh in ...

A man declared dead by doctors woke up just as he was placed on the pyre much to the shock of those around but breathed his last a few hours later, the dramatic life and death story unfolding in ...

Singh said that "shortly before the pyre was to be lit ... Kumar was rushed to hospital for a second time, but was confirmed dead on Friday during treatment. Authorities have suspended the ...

Two days after his father was shot dead by militants in front of his eyes, eight-year-old Tanuj lit the funeral pyre in Balasore’s Ishani village as his mother fainted repeatedly and his grandmother ...

The Lang Pa Cha took place between March and May. On the day of the cremation, Bibeam's body was placed on top of the funeral pyre, symbolically leading the souls of the departed on their journey ...