Each funeral pyre requires about 4-5 quintals of wood. The price of pyre wood has soared from Rs 400-500 for about 100 kg to Rs 2,000-2,500 in some States. At an average, one needs to pay ...

PRAYAGRAJ: The pyre wood sellers at the crematoriums in the city are finding it difficult to create a buffer stock to meet the increased demand as the number of bodies coming for cremation has ...

Each cremation requires an average of 650 pounds of wood. The result is denuded forests, rivers clogging up with human ashes or even body parts — and a wood trade said to be rife with corruption.

Set inside a circular wooden fence a few miles out of town, with the Sangre de Cristo range of the Rocky Mountains looming in the background, the pyre itself is a utilitarian structure: two waist ...

Save room for hand pies filled with wood oven-roasted apples ($8 for two) and coffee and doughnuts, which includes three magically flaky beignets atop a bed of espresso chocolate cream ($10).

Piles of wood, meant to be given free of cost for last rites, were sold at a profit in these funeral homes, for Holika dahan the burning of evil on the night before Holi. While the price was Rs 12 ...

Pyre Provisions is slated to open in mid-November in the former home of Bacobar, not far from downtown Covington. It’s the first restaurant from New Orleans chef Jeff Mattia.

Right now, about 50 such units are spread around nine Indian states. According to Anshul Garg, the director of Mokshda Green Cremation System, one metal pyre can handle around 45 cremations a day ...

A Mokshda cremation system in Hoshangabad in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It uses around 200 kilograms of wood versus about 600 kilograms needed for a traditional pyre.

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The State Government opened three makeshift crematoria, where, in the last 10 days, about 200 tons of wood has been used. “For one pyre, about 1,300- 1,500 kg of wood is needed.

A Buddhist priest has been killed while performing a cremation after a funeral pyre exploded in front of him in Cambodia. Hoeun Soeun, 72, was saying prayers while pouring petrol on wood to ...