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At an age when most women are getting married, building careers, or planning families, Pooja Sharma spends her days cremating unclaimed dead bodies. Born into a middle-class family in Shahdara, Delhi, Pooja completed a master’s degree in social work and was working as an HIV counsellor at a government hospital. At the time, Pooja was…
MEERUT: Nearly three weeks after police cremated an unidentified body, believing it to be that of Sushil Kumar, they found the 44-year-old walking through a busy crossing in Sambhal, alive – and confused. The discovery forced police to restart a murder investigation they thought had already concluded, and left them with the task of identifying…
KULLU: Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who died in the Tejas crash during the Dubai air show, was cremated with full state honours in his ancestral village of Patialkar in Nagrota Bagwan tehsil of Kangra district in Himachal Pradesh on Sunday.Family members, relatives, officials, and hundreds of locals bid an emotional farewell to the 34-year-old IAF…
Former actor Zarine Khan, wife of Sanjay Khan and mother of Sussanne Khan and Zayed Khan, passed away on November 7 at her Mumbai residence. She was 81 and had been battling age-related ailments.Born Zarine Katrak in a Parsi family, she later married into a Muslim household. However, her son Zayed Khan performed her last…
SRINAGAR: Amid curfew and a ban on mobile internet, two of the four people killed on Sept 24 in the violent protest over the demand for statehood and Sixth Schedule status for Ladakh were cremated Sunday.A small group of relatives of Jigmat Dorjee (25) and Stanzin Namgyal (24) attended the cremation under heavy security, while…
Zubeen Garg, Assamese singer, was cremated in Guwahati NEW DELHI: Assamese singer Zubeen Garg‘s body was cremated amid chanting of Vedic hymns and emotional tributes at Kamarkuchi on the outskirts of Guwahati. His wife, Garima Saikia Garg, was seen in tears and sobbing throughout the cremation rituals held at the Kamarkuchi NC village crematorium. The…
Singer Zubeen Garg will be cremated with full state honours on September 23 at a village near Guwahati, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced on Sunday.The decision to cremate the singer at Kamarkuchi NC village was taken during a cabinet meeting early this evening. According to reports, this decision was made, taking into consideration…
