Cremations

BEIJING: Cremations in the Chineseprovince of Zhejiang rose more than 70% year-on-year in the first quarter, government data showed, an unexplained jump that occurred as a Covid outbreak swept the country.About 171,000 cremations were…

Last Updated: June 15, 2023, 04:11 ISTUnited States of America (USA)A general view of the Harvard Medical School in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., May 15, 2022. Picture taken with a drone. (Reuters)Cedric Lodge,…

Bankrupt Sri Lanka will reserve a portion of its scarce fuel supplies for the cremation of Buddhists, whose funeral rites have been disrupted during a dire economic crisis. The island nation’s 22 million people have faced months of food,…

In January this year, 50-year-old Govind Gopal, an environmental activist from Danya — a small tourist stopover between Almora and Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand — went on a hunger strike to raise concerns about and demand accountability for…