'Kumbh held with no fire safety plan''

Notwithstanding the death of 38 devotees and several incidents of fire, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his colleague Azam Khan have been invited by the prestigious Harvard University for successfully organising the 55-day long Mahakumbh, the ...

Chandauli: During the Kumbh mela, the Uttar Pradesh Police had stopped a seer who wanted to pray, buried in a six feet deep grave. But it didn't stop a priest from bathing in boiling milk and sticking his head into fire, perhaps because of the ...

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

The Kumbh Mela, the Hindu festival billed as the world's largest human gathering, received plenty of positive press during its 55-day run earlier this year. In February, I traveled to the Kumbh with a global health research team from Harvard, and ...

JUNE 2012 The Harvard Alumni Association elects Scott A. Abell 82; James E. Johnson 83, J.D. 86; Tracy P. Palandjian 93, M.B.A. 97; Swati Piramal, M.P.H. 92; and Kathryn A. Taylor 80 to serve six-year terms as Overseers . The School of ...

The national vice president of the BJP and party MLA Uma Bharti met the Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday and demanded the speedy development in her constituency Charkhari in Mahoba district. She said that no development work took place in her ...

In a show of solidarity with his cabinet colleague Azam Khan who was recently detained at Boston airport, PWD Minister Shivpal Yadav has decided not to visit John Hopkins University which had invited him to make a presentation on Uttar Pradesh Water ...

According to a recent report by a US Government commission, Myanmar is among the worst countries when it comes to religious freedom. However, there seems to be no debate on the issue and even the international community is treating it as an internal ...

The Chinese soldiers, who have intruded as much as 19 km deep into eastern Ladakh, have pitched one more tent near the face-off site in Depsang Valley, taking to five the number of such structures erected after the incursion on April 15 and denting ...