The sight of the body of an elderly man lying on the road, just outside the NTR Hospital at Anakapalli, with no one willing to touch it, during the first wave of COVID-19 brought a total transformation in a young man. After the pandemic, I started cremating unclaimed bodies,” Mr. Tarun told The Hindu. “After the pandemic, I decided to …
The Banking Laws Bill, 2024, which was cleared by the Lok Sabha a couple of days ago, addresses some of the key customer issues such as having multiple nominees for an account. The Banking Regulation Act allows account holders to appoint a nominee, who can access or deposit articles or locker in case of death of the person who nominated …
Lena Brown’s lonely ending forewarns a future of death in America. While no federal agency keeps track of the number of unclaimed bodies, local data from across the U.S. suggest that an estimated 2% to 4% of people who die every year in the United States now go unclaimed, up to 148,000 people annually. But government officials often stand in …
NEW DELHI: Transforming grief into a mission, a 26-year-old woman in Delhi has been performing the last rites of unclaimed bodies for nearly two years now, right after losing her brother to a tragic death. Pooja Sharma, a resident of the Shahdara locality has performed the last rites of several bodies that remained unclaimed in hospitals for long and possibly …
The Calcutta High Court has allowed a PIL seeking handing over of an Advocate's unclaimed dead body to the High Court Bar Association, for performing the last rites.A division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj directed, the State authorities to "hand over the dead body of deceased Kaushik Dey to the petitioner of the PIL or …
