Hindu man in UK fights for open-air cremations

Seventy-one-year-old Davender Ghai has seen little success in his three-year-old legal battle to conduct open-air cremations for Hindus in UK, but is far from giving up. After the high court upheld......

UK court begins hearing on allowing Hindu pyres

A top British court on Tuesday began a landmark judicial review on allowing funeral pyres according to Hindu rites, a decision that could impact millions of Indian diaspora living in the United......

UK Hindus fight for cremation right

In a significant case for the 559,000 Hindus in Britain, a British court will review whether open air cremations are unlawful. Davender Kumar Ghai, 68, from Gosforth, Newcastle, had organised an......