Nigambodh Ghat

Sheila Dikshit cremated with full state honours at Delhi's Nigambodh Ghat; Sonia Gandhi, Amit Shah attend ex-CM's funeral

Sheila Dikshit, three-time chief minister of Delhi, who is credited with the 'all-round' development of the national capital was cremated with full state honours on Sunday after she passed away due to a cardiac arrest on Saturday.

World Environment Day: Delhi's green crematoriums a cheaper alternative, but faith gets in way of popularity

Daulat Sharma, head priest at Dayanand Muktidham Crematorium in Nizamuddin West, however, feels that the "eco-friendly is the future".

Anti-trafficking Bill gets Cabinet nod; government's focus should now shift from punitive action to rehabilitation

The Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959 defines a beggar as someone with ‘no visible means of subsistence and wandering, about or remaining in any public place in such condition or manner, as makes is likely that the person doing so exist soliciting or receiving alms’.