Mukhtar Ansari burial | Security beefed up in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur

Mukhtar Ansari burial | Security beefed up in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur

An ambulance carrying the mortal remains of the jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari leaves for his native place in Ghazipur, from a hospital in Banda on March 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Security arrangements have been strengthened outside the residence of Mukhtar Ansari in Ghazipur and a burial ground in the Uttar Pradesh district ahead … Read more

No illegality in burying bodies even in places not designated as burial grounds in villages, says HC

No illegality in burying bodies even in places not designated as burial grounds in villages, says HC

A Division Bench of the Madras High Court has set aside an order passed by a single judge to exhume all bodies that had been buried on a land classified ‘ Vandi Pathai’ (cart track) in the revenue records of Navakurichi village in Attur taluk of Salem district and relocate the remains to two designated … Read more

Saving the Environment — and Cash — Through ‘Green’ Burials

Saving the Environment — and Cash — Through ‘Green’ Burials

April 4, 2022 – In 2017, Judy and Al Mowrer of Wooster, OH, decided they wanted to be “pushin’ up daisies” in the literal sense when they died – using their bodies to help the Earth prosper and give new life. So last year when Al died of multiple sclerosis at 74, he was wrapped … Read more