Jajpur: Hundreds of devotees took holy dip at the Dasaswamedha ghat on the bank of river Baitarani in Jajpur as the Kumbh Mela began early Saturday. As per the belief, if someone takes holy dip in Baitarani river and offers oblation to forefathers on the occasion of the ‘Mahabaruni Snana’, the ancestors will achieve ‘Moksha’ […]
Prayagraj: President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated a three-day Gandhian Resurgence Summit at Parmarth Niketan camp at the ongoing Kumbh Mela on Thursday. About 300 Gandhians from different parts of the country and organisations are participating in the Summit. Speaking at the event, the President said that Kumbh is the biggest congregation of humanity of the world […]
Prayagraj: Thousands of devotees took a holy dip here at the Sangam — the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna and the mystical Saraswati rivers — on Tuesday morning, on the auspicious occasion of Makar Sankranti and marking the onset of the Kumbh Mela. Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged devotees to participate in the Kumbh […]
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh): A fire broke out in the Kumbh premises here on Monday, destroying a large part of the tented area, officials said. But no loss of life was reported. The fire erupted in Sector 13 of the sprawling Kumbh complex due to an explosion in a cooking gas cylinder at the ‘Digambar Akhada’ […]
Allahabad: Indian Railways will use technology, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), in a big way to tackle the massive rush of passengers to this holy city during the upcoming Kumbh Mela — for which it will deploy as many as 800 special trains. IBM Intelligent Video Analytics will be pressed into service, a first for the […]
Prayagraj: Braving intense chill, scores of devotees took a dip in the River Ganga here on Monday on the occasion of Paush Purnima – the second auspicious bathing day of the Kumbh Mela. From Sunday night itself, the Sangam area was buzzing with activities, as devotees started arriving, while security forces maintained a close watch […]
Lucknow: To facilitate pilgrims arriving in large numbers during the Kumbh Mela in 2019, the railways has proposed running 800 special trains from various stations of Allahabad district, an officials has said. These trains would be in addition to the regular trains run by the North Central Railway (NCR). PRO NCR Amit Malviya said, “Six […]
New Delhi: In yet another initiative, the Indian Railways has firmed up plans to run special ‘Pravasi Bharti’ trains between Allahabad and Delhi to ferry delegates of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas from the Kumbh Mela in time for the Republic Day event in the national capital, sources said. Railways will convert all third AC coaches […]
Nashik: The Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Simhastha Kumbh Mela was inaugurated by Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in Nashik and Union Home minister Rajnath Singh in Trimbakeshwar today morning. The inaugural was marked with poojas, hymns and traditional flag hoisting at both venues amidst tight security. Fadnavis hoisted the flag in Nashik while Singh did the honours in […]
Dehradun: Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL), the sole state-run electricity distribution company, has awarded a Rs 388 crore contract for underground cabling at Haridwar to Vindhya Telelinks Ltd, an M. P. Birla group company. With this, Haridwar is all set to become Uttarakhand’s first city where power lines will go underground by 2021. “After finalising […]
Chennai: You do not actually need a tattoo on your left hand to match with a missing family member who was lost in Kumbh Mela years ago. In the digital era, even Chinese short video-messaging app TikTok can help you reunite with your lost hubby. In an interesting chain of events, a mother of two […]
Boudh: In an unprecedented incident, the district administration of Boudh took more than 12 hours to reach the family of a retired school teacher who died on Saturday night after…
Cuttack: As many as 14 more Kumbh Mela returnees to Odisha including a servitor of Puri Jagannath Temple tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday. 13 returnees who deboarded train at…
Cuttack: As many as 13 people returning after participation in the Haridwar Kumbh Mela have tested positive for Covid-19 in Cuttack. Local urban authority, the Cuttack Municipal Corporation informed that…
Bhubaneswar: Amid the resurgence of Covid-19 cases in the country, around 400 people of as many as 150 families from Odisha attended Kumbh Mela at Haridwar in Uttarakhand this year.…
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