Several members of the Dalit community staged a road blockade after alleging that upper caste men stopped them from performing the last rites of a Dalit youth on government land in a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh were among hundreds who bid a tearful adieu to veteran political leader Devender Singh Rana on Friday as his last rites were held here.
Pandher told ANI that a First Information Report (FIR) should be lodged against the Haryana Police.
Inspector Wani, who was shot by a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist while playing cricket in Srinagar on 29 October, died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi on Thursday.
PM Modi carried the bier with the mortal remains to the crematorium for the last rites.
In a change from the conventional Hindu tradition, her daughter Bansuri was empowered to carry out the last rites.
Former External Affairs Minister and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, who gave a humane face to the foreign ministry, passed away late on Tuesday night after suffering a heart attack.
Parrikar, who was also a former Defence Minister, passed away on Sunday evening at age 63 following a long battle with a pancreatic ailment.
'Tiger', as he was fondly called by his friends and colleagues, was to get married in the first week of March; his last rites will take place at Haridwar on Monday with military and state honours
The last rites of the teenage girl, who was set ablaze by her stalkers for refusing to talk to them, were performed amid tight security in Meerut’s Sardhana on Wednesday.
