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Pope Francis buried outside Vatican, breaking century-old tradition: Here is why

Francis also refused to live in the Apostolic Palace. He stayed instead in a modest guesthouse within the Vatican. In Argentina, he used public transport as a cardinal and preferred a simple Ford Focus even after becoming pope. He also introduced several changes in papal funerals, which made the process simpler.

State funeral of former PM Dr Manmohan Singh to be held at Nigambodh Ghat in Delhi on Saturday afternoon

Last rites of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are to be performed at the Nigambodh Ghat in the national capital on Saturday afternoon.

Nominal ‘8th Nizam’ buried in Hyderabad after death in Turkey, read about his Ottoman dynasty connection and suppression of Hindus

Mukarram Jah Bahadur, the nominal eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, was buried at Makka Mosque in Hyderabad after he died in Turkey

Crowds outside crematoriums, funeral homes increase in China amid Covid surge

The imagery captured by Maxar Technologies showed an uptick in activity at funeral homes across six different cities, from Beijing in the north to Nanjing in the east, to Chengdu and Kunming in the southwest. 

Bomb blast at Kabul mosque where condolence prayers for Taliban spokesperson’s deceased mother were being held, several civilians dead

Bomb blast at Eidgah mosque in Kabul where memorial prayers of the mother of Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid was being held

Taliban holds mock funeral with coffins wrapped in US and NATO flags amid Allahu Akbar chants

Taliban celebrated the exit of U.S Military forces from the Afghanistan soil with coffins draped in US and NATO flags.

Deepika Padukone auctions clothes she wore for funerals, her ‘fans’ get into firefighting mode

Deepika Padukone courted controversy on social media after she was found auctioning clothes she wore to funeral ceremonies.

After the Taliban killed Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, pictures of his family being sold on Getty for Rs 23,000 each

Incidentally, Getty Images had hosted pictures of funeral pyres of Covid victims in India at the same price as that of the relatives of Danish Siddiqui

BBC apologises for its coverage of footballer Eriksen’s collapse, it is time they apologise for their grotesque reportage on India’s Covid outbreak too

The western media outlets, including BBC, ought to apologise India for perpetrating racism with their egregious coverage of country's COVID-19 pandemic and linking it with morbid images of burning funeral pyres.

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