Getting certificates in home deaths taxing task for grieving kin in Hyderabad

Getting certificates in home deaths taxing task for grieving kin in Hyderabad

Obtaining death certificates in cases of home deaths has become quite taxing for the kin of the deceased. They are often made to wait unendingly in order to go through the urgent and unavoidable processes for transfer of pensions and assets. There is high pendency of death certificates pertaining to home deaths in the city … Read more

Special court reserves order on plea of Bhujbal’s kin to drop ED case

Special court reserves order on plea of Bhujbal’s kin to drop ED case

NCP’s Chhagan Bhujbal speaks, at Shivaji Park in Mumbai | Photo Credit: PTI The special court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has reserved its order on a plea application filed by Nationalist Congress Party leader Chhagan Bhujbal’s relatives, along with other concerned parties.  PMLA judge Rahul Rokde confirmed that the decision would … Read more

Balasore train accident | Odisha starts DNA sampling in doubtful cases before handing over bodies to kin

Balasore train accident | Odisha starts DNA sampling in doubtful cases before handing over bodies to kin

Workers remove debris from the railway tracks during the restoration work at the triple train mishap site where over 270 people died and more than 1,000 injured, near Bahanaga Bazar in Balasore district on Monday, June 5, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI In order to authenticate the identification of bodies and keep fake claimants at … Read more

Morning Digest | 233 people killed, over 900 injured in Odisha triple train crash; PM Modi announced ex-gratia of ₹2 lakh for next of kin of deceased, and more 

Morning Digest | 233 people killed, over 900 injured in Odisha triple train crash; PM Modi announced ex-gratia of ₹2 lakh for next of kin of deceased, and more 

Locals gather after the Coromandel Express derails after hitting a goods train near Bahanaga station in Balasore on Friday. | Photo Credit: ANI Odisha train accident | 233 people killed, over 900 injured in Odisha triple train crash The accident took place at around 7 p.m. when two coaches of 12864 (SMVB-HWH) Yashwantpur-Howrah Express derailed near Bahanaga … Read more

Coromandel Express derailment | PM Modi announces ex-gratia of ₹2 lakh for next of kin of deceased

Coromandel Express derailment | PM Modi announces ex-gratia of ₹2 lakh for next of kin of deceased

Rescue operation being conducted after four coaches of the Coromandel Express derailed. At least 50 people are feared dead and several others injured, in Balasore district on June 2, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Expressing distress over the train accident in Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said rescue operations were underway at the … Read more

Morbi bridge collapse | Gujarat HC directs Oreva Group to pay ₹10 lakh compensation to kin of each deceased

Morbi bridge collapse | Gujarat HC directs Oreva Group to pay ₹10 lakh compensation to kin of each deceased

File photo of search and rescue operations in Morbi, Gujarat. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Gujarat High Court on February 22 directed the Oreva Group to pay compensation of ₹10 lakh to kin of each deceased of the Morbi bridge collapse tragedy, and ₹2 lakh to each injured within four weeks. The Morbi-based Ajanta Manufacturing … Read more

Section of kin oppose self-declaration of Azmet Jah as IX Nizam

Section of kin oppose self-declaration of Azmet Jah as IX Nizam

One of the grandsons of VII Nizam, Najaf Ali Khan. | Photo Credit: ARRANGEMENT A section of the Nizam’s family is opposing the ‘declaration’ on the anointment of Mir Mohammed Azmat Ali Khan Azmet Jah as the IX head, IX titular Nizam, of the Asaf Jahi dynasty “as per the desire and the decree” made … Read more

Andhra Pradesh: Initiative launched to help kin of farmers who died by suicide in Anantapur

Andhra Pradesh: Initiative launched to help kin of farmers who died by suicide in Anantapur

Gorle Gangulamma, who lost her husband Venkatesh last year, got ₹7 lakh compensation from the State government, but that was not enough to repay loans taken by him. As per the G.O. in earlier days, the State government used to pay half the amount of the loans as a one-time settlement to lenders on behalf … Read more

Kin ‘carry’ pregnant woman across river in Odisha; NHRC intervenes

Kin ‘carry’ pregnant woman across river in Odisha; NHRC intervenes

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the District Collector of Odisha’s Kalahandi over reports of a pregnant woman being carried on a cot to cross a river in the absence of a bridge. Acting on the petition of human rights activist Akhand, the NHRC directed the District Collector submit an action … Read more

Tamil Nadu: ‘Dead’ man kept in freezer box by kin rescued alive by cops day later

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In a bizarre incident, a 74-year-old man, presumed dead by his family who kept his body inside a freezer box overnight, was found to be alive the next day. The family of Balasubramania Kumar of Kandhampatti in Salem district of Tamil Nadu reportedly placed his body in a freezer box on Monday. The man was, … Read more