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Saturday, February 21, 2026
TopicLast rites

Topic: last rites

Ladakh bids goodbye to 2 killed in 24 September violence—a batsman & an engineering student

A hunger strike and demonstration, demanding the Sixth Schedule and statehood for Ladakh, erupted into chaos in Leh Wednesday. Four people, subsequently, died in firing by security forces.

In pictures: Kathmandu drowns in grief as young ‘revolutionaries’ laid to rest draped in national flag

Anti-corruption Gen Z protesters who died during violent agitation are being given a martyrs’ farewell, with hundreds turning up to pay their last respects.

After a week’s search, family working in hostel mess cremates mother & 2-yr-old killed in Air India crash

Ravi Thakor’s daughter & mother were inside BJ Medical College hostel when the Air India flight crashed. Thakor’s family had been working in the hostel mess for 15 years.

At Manmohan Singh’s last rites, BJP in limelight, Congress complains of being put in shadows

Only Doordarshan cameras allowed inside at funeral, with footage showing mostly BJP leaders. Congress lambasts govt, police officer cites security for dignitaries, family's concerns.

Indians buried even Pakistani Kargil soldiers, but now denying last rites to Covid victims

Families of a Padma Shri awardee in Punjab and two doctors in Chennai and Shillong had a traumatic time performing the last rites — as if Covid-19 has robbed us of all humanity.

A decade-long legal battle for permission to attend Parsi parents’ last rites

Two sisters moved court a decade ago to fight for Parsi women’s right to retain their religion after marrying outside their community.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.