Last Respects  

29 June 1999 - On a sunny afternoon in Noida, more than a lakh people had gathered to pay their last respects to Lt. Vijyant Thapar, whose body was flown in by the Indian Airlines earlier that day. Col Virendra Thapar, Vijyant’s father, was a third-generation military man in the family. ‘Robin’ as he was affectionately called, Lt. Vijyant Thapar, led a company platoon of the 2 Rajputana Rifles that fought in the Battle of Knoll, Three Pimples and Lone Hill during the Kargil War in 1999. A story of a braveheart is revisited by Neha Dwivedi and Col Thapar in ‘Vijyant at Kargil: The Life of a Kargil Hero’.

Several prominent personalities from diverse fields, including theatre, films and politics, and thousands of others gathered at the cremation ground to pay their last respects to the actor.

From BJP working president JP Nadda to Rajya Sabha MP GVL Narasimha Rao, several leaders paid their last respects to former Union finance minister Arun Jaitley

The body of Cafe Coffee Day owner VG Siddhartha was found on the shores of Netravati river in Mangaluru today after 36 hours of search. Final rites were performed at his farm in Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka, as more than 10,000 people bid adieu to the CCD founder.
 

The Indian Air Force offered a gun salute in the presence of officials from the civil administration. A large number of people turned up to pay their last respects.
 

Sivachandran, who belongs to Karugudi village, near Ariyalur, had resumed duty on February 9. He had joined the CRPF in 2010 and is survived by his wife Kanthimathi and a two-year-old son

Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy came to the rescue of minister SR Mahesh and defended his actions of lashing out at Tumakuru SP Divya Gopinath for stopping the minister from  entering through the VIP gate while paying last respects to Shivakumara Swamiji at the Siddaganga Mutt.

Though the video showed SP Divya Gopinath wiping away her tears and many alleged that it was a result of the state tourism minister taking her to task, SP Divya spoke to media and clarified that no incident of minister getting angry occurred.

One of the devotees who visited the Siddaganga Mutt to pay his last respects to Shivakumara Swamiji was served food at the mutt. The man tried to throw the unfinished food, when a student returned the disposal plate to him and asked him to throw it after finishing the food
 

Tollywood stars Prosenjit Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, Sandip Ray, Madhabi Mukherjee, Anjan Dutt and Mamata Shankar among others attended Mrinal Sen’s funeral.

In a surprising development in Gadag, a monkey paid its last respects to one of the elderly persons. It even consoled the son of the victim, who died of a heart attack.

Actor and Congress leader Ambareesh died following a cardiac arrest on Saturday night at Vikram Hospital. He was 66. His last rites will be performed near Dr Raj Kumar memorial in Bengaluru.

BJP state president Amit Shah and leaders Rajnath Singh and Nirmala Sitharaman paid homage to Ananth Kumar at the crematorium in Chamarajapet, Bengaluru, where final rites are being performed. 

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu paid his last respects to late Ananth Kumar at National College grounds in Bengaluru. Final rites would be performed at Chamarajapet Crematorium at 1 PM, today. 

Fifty-nine-year-old Ananth Kumar died following multi-organ failure at a private hospital in Bengaluru. He was suffering from cancer.