GAUHATI, India -- A comb. A toothbrush. A bangle. A cotton scarf -- protection from the summer heat now used as a face mask. The personal belongings of cremated covid-19 victims lie strewn around the ...

(RNS) — Hindu advocates hope the new bill would better fit the spiritual needs of a community that largely cremates its dead. (RNS) — At the funeral of Nikunj Trivedi’s uncle a few years ago, the ...

Slain Nepali hostage Bipin Joshi was mourned by his loved ones in a traditional Hindu cremation ceremony in his hometown of Kanchanpur on Tuesday, two years after he was kidnapped from Israel and ...

UBUD, Indonesia (Reuters) - Miguel Covarrubias, the Mexican artist who lived in Bali in the 1930s and who did much to promote its image as a tropical island paradise, wrote that the Hindu Balinese ...

GAUHATI, India -- A comb. A toothbrush. A bangle. A cotton scarf -- protection from the summer heat now used as a face mask. The personal belongings of cremated covid-19 victims lie strewn around the ...