A dispute over the burial of a Christian pastor in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh provoked significant legal and social debate. Pastor Subhash Baghel died on 7 January in the village of ...

Christian women with ancestral graves at St Andrew's Church cemetery in Mumbai are protesting against a rule that disallows burial of married daughters' spouses and children, saying it is ...

Members of an Indigenous-led research team detected 114 'unmarked burial features' on the former property of McIntosh Indian Residential School in northwestern Ontario. McIntosh, founded in 1925 ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 2,500-year-old burial site in the Negev Highlands ... The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or ...

To deny the burial of a person solely on the ground of their religious belief, she lamented, is to betray the sublime principles of secularism that the Indian Constitution upholds. Quoting ...

Pakistan has called on United Nations General Assembly and other UN human rights bodies to demand that India should allow the body of veteran Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Gilani, who passed away last week ...

A division bench has delivered a split verdict on the burial of a Christian tribal in Chhattisgarh. Justice B V Nagarathna allowed burial in his village, citing religious discrimination ...

Spain-based migrant rights group, Walking Borders said 50 people on the boat died on their way to the Canary Islands and 44 of them were Pakistanis. Pakistan has already repatriated all the 22 ...

India’s top court has kept pending its order on a Christian ... However, the court asserted that the right of decent burial to the dead must be paramount. “I am hopeful that the top court will grant ...

Raipur (AsiaNews) - India's Supreme Court has ordered the Chhattisgarh ... A group of village residents objected to burial in the local cemetery, forcing his son Ramesh Baghel-a farmer belonging ...

A body has been lying in a mortuary in Chhattisgarh since January 7, due to a dispute over the place of burial The Tribune ... selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it expected an amicable settlement and a decent burial of a pastor whose body was lying in a mortuary since January 7 as it reserved its verdict on his son's plea.