Last week, a video of Baba Ramdev went viral in India where the guru can be heard questioning the credibility of allopathy (the treatment of disease by conventional.
Being a Cremation Ground Wworker in Covid times
The quiet synonymous with a cremation ground is replaced by ambulance sirens, relatives in PPE suits and crackling of burning wood
Wednesday May 12, 2021 10:10 AM, Sukant Deepak, IANS
New Delhi: The shades of dusk are falling it is time to exit this space. But people continue to come in with their dead. The quiet synonymous with a cremation ground is replaced by ambulance sirens, relatives in PPE suits and crackling of burning wood.
The cremation grounds at Sector 25 in Chandigarh has never witnessed so many pyres ever since it was established decades back. Equipped to handle 50 cremations at a given time, it is running to almost full capacity ever since the second wave of Covid-19 struck.
Now, dead bodies found on Ganga banks in Ghazipur
Police officials said that following the incident, they have intensified river patrolling through boats
Tuesday May 11, 2021 8:01 PM, IANS
Patna/Ghazipur (UP): After Bihar s Buxar, around two dozen bodies were found on the banks of the Ganga at adjoining Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Tuesday.
A.K. Pandey, the SHO of Gahmar police station in Ghazipur, told IANS that the bodies were found in a decomposed stage on the bank of the Ganga river. Preliminary investigation reveals that the dead bodies could be 18 to 20 days old. There were 23 dead bodies recovered from the river and some of the dead bodies were partially cremated and then thrown into the river.