Karnataka launches its first mobile crematorium service in Kundapur
India | January 26, 2023 20:53 ISTThe mortal remains will get reduced to ashes within two hours using LPG cylinder weighing 10 kg. The vehicle will be sent to the site on request.
The mortal remains will get reduced to ashes within two hours using LPG cylinder weighing 10 kg. The vehicle will be sent to the site on request.
Tamil Nadu: The proposed revision of power tariff charges will be another excuse for those running the crematoriums to fleece the relatives of the dead.
With at least three dozen serving and retired AMU employees having died in the past few weeks due to Covid, old graves are now being dug up to bury the dead.
The benefits include Rs 25 lakh for the family if a worker dies due to the virus infection.
Crematorium manager said cremations have to be carried out quickly as many people are not keen to wait at the site for long due to fear amid the pandemic, while in many instances infected kin are unable to make it for the last rites due to isolation and other such reasons.
The crematorium, which takes at least more than 20 bodies for cremation every day, put up a board saying no more bodies will be taken up for cremation. There are 13 electric crematoriums in the city.
A chimney at Kurukshetra Crematorium in Surat titled from overheating amid rush of bodies.
Panic aroused among people after the chimney of the crematorium collapsed in Surat. India’s daily COVID-19 cases retreated from record levels on Tuesday but stayed above the 200,000 mark for a sixth-straight day, with cases increasing by 259,170 over the last 24 hours.
Pune city on Sunday reported 4,631 fresh coronavirus positive cases, taking the overall count to 4,00,117 while 55 fatalities pushed the toll to 6,498, an official release said.
Bengaluru Civic body on Friday evening issued a circular announcing appointment of 24 nodal officers for 12 crematoriums that are functional across the city.
"Earlier average 14-15 bodies used to come here but now 50-60 bodies are coming daily from various places. Last rites are a time-consuming process and this place has only limited area for bodies," a local social worker said.
A man who was admitted apparently with a brain haemorrhage was declared dead by Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) authorities who also handed over a "death certificate" to his family.
Ajay Tyagi, the contractor who was arrested by the Ghaziabad police on Tuesday in connection with roof collapse tragedy, has confessed that he bribed Muradnagar Nagar Palika officials to secure the contract.
The Ghaziabad Police Monday arrested three municipal officials over the collapse of a roof at a crematorium here that claimed 25 lives, even as victims' kin blocked the Delhi-Meerut Highway demanding higher compensation and a govt job for each family
A newly-constructed crematorium, which was yet to be inaugurated, collapsed in West Bengal's Howrah district on Sunday, officials said. The crematorium, located in Sankrail, was built at a cost of Rs 13 lakh under the state government's 'Baitarani' project for burning ghats with modern facilities.
First-time MLA, Nimmala Rama Naidu, has been trying to undertake a modernisation project at the local crematorium, which was lying in shambles.
New Delhi, Dec 30: It was only late last night that police approached the officials of a crematorium in south-west Delhi for an early morning cremation of the 23-year-old gangrape victim.The cremation plans were kept
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