Railway probe officials visit site of Allahabad station stampede

The inclusion of those who were reportedly responsible for the stampede that killed 36 people at Allahabad station during the Kumbh Mela, in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s entourage to Harvard has raised eyebrows. Sharat Pradhan reportsUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will give a talk to students and scholars of the  HarvardBusinessSchool on April 25 about the success of the recently-concluded Kumbh Mela at Allahabad. This follows an invitation ...

The recent stampede at Allahabad station during the Kumbh Mela has set alarm bells ringing for the Odisha government, which is gearing up for the Nabakalebar festival (formation of new idols) at the Jagannath temple in Puri, slated to be held in ...

The Uttar Pradesh government had demanded 50 trains to clear the massive rush during the Maha Kumbh but got only 12 before the stampede on the Allahabad junction, in which 36 persons lost their lives, state minister Azam Khan said on Wednesday.

The Mahakumbh's engineering miracle contrasts with the tragic stampede in Allahabad on February 10, on the auspicious Mauni Amavasya.

The Akhilesh Yadav-led SP government Wednesday agreed to Opposition demand for a debate in the Assembly on the Allahabad railway station stampede which claimed 38 lives earlier this month. BSP, BJP and Congress members raised the matter through adjournment ...

After Uttar Pradesh played host to world's largest religious congregation during Mahakumbh in Allahabad, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Minister Mohammad Azam Khan have been invited by the Harvard University to share the story of organising the ...

Allahabad: The curtain came down on Sunday on the Kumbh 2013, the biggest religious congregation on the earth, with over 70 lakh people taking a holy dip at Sangam on Maha Shivratri. Lakhs of devotees flocked to Sangam, the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and ...

At least two persons were today killed and 12 injured in a stampede at a Shiva temple where thousands of devotees had lined up to pay obeisance on the occasion of Shivratri. The incident occurred in the wee hours at Lodeshwar Mahadev Temple when the ...

It appears that Uttar Pradesh Assembly has forgotten the victims of the Mahakumbh stampede. Even five days since its current Budget session began, the Assembly has not condoled the death of 39 devotees in the stampede at the Allahabad railway station on ...