Cemetries

A 22-year-old man was arrested on Sunday from Navi Mumbai for allegedly vandalising as many as 18 crosses in a cemetery attached to the famous Mahim church in Mumbai a day before.

The museum further states that the artefact was discovered in a cemetery that was considered to belong to a high-status woman, possibly royalty.

US President Donald Trump referred to US Marines buried in a WWI cemetery in France as "losers" and "suckers" for getting killed in action, according to a report Thursday in the Atlantic magazine.

The consul general from Chinese consulate in Kolkata MA Zhanwu has said China wants the historical cemetery in Ramgarh to be developed as a global tourist destination.

In a country where even living in close proximity to a cemetery is seen as inauspicious and unlucky, this restaurant in Ahmedabad has not only built itself atop an old Muslim cemetery, but the owners also did not remove the graves on the way and set their restaurant with the dead.

A violent brawl on Saturday at a Moscow cemetery involving about 200 people in an apparent turf war left three people dead and 23 others hospitalized, police and health officials said.

After a two-decade-long fight for a cemetery of their own, the city's Shia Muslim community have been given seven burial grounds across the city.On Sunday, mayor Shraddha Jadhav handed over two cemetery plots -- one in Mulund (East) and the other in Kapaswadi, Juhu -- to community groups at a function in Imamwada. Five other burial grounds, includi...

Historians have uncovered what they believe is the world's best-preserved cemetery of gladiators, who may have been killed while battling wild beasts or by a hammer blow from a fellow fighter, in the North of England.The 2,000-year-old remains of almost 80 young men, mutilated by horrific injuries, were found by archaeologists as they excavated a r...

A 22-year-old man was arrested on Sunday from Navi Mumbai for allegedly vandalising as many as 18 crosses in a cemetery attached to the famous Mahim church in Mumbai a day before.

The museum further states that the artefact was discovered in a cemetery that was considered to belong to a high-status woman, possibly royalty.

US President Donald Trump referred to US Marines buried in a WWI cemetery in France as "losers" and "suckers" for getting killed in action, according to a report Thursday in the Atlantic magazine.

The consul general from Chinese consulate in Kolkata MA Zhanwu has said China wants the historical cemetery in Ramgarh to be developed as a global tourist destination.

In a country where even living in close proximity to a cemetery is seen as inauspicious and unlucky, this restaurant in Ahmedabad has not only built itself atop an old Muslim cemetery, but the owners also did not remove the graves on the way and set their restaurant with the dead.

A violent brawl on Saturday at a Moscow cemetery involving about 200 people in an apparent turf war left three people dead and 23 others hospitalized, police and health officials said.

After a two-decade-long fight for a cemetery of their own, the city's Shia Muslim community have been given seven burial grounds across the city.On Sunday, mayor Shraddha Jadhav handed over two cemetery plots -- one in Mulund (East) and the other in Kapaswadi, Juhu -- to community groups at a function in Imamwada. Five other burial grounds, includi...

Historians have uncovered what they believe is the world's best-preserved cemetery of gladiators, who may have been killed while battling wild beasts or by a hammer blow from a fellow fighter, in the North of England.The 2,000-year-old remains of almost 80 young men, mutilated by horrific injuries, were found by archaeologists as they excavated a r...