Kumbh Mela to cost `1,060cr: Banthia

The 55-day-long Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, which the state government claimed to have organised successfully, lacked "organised integrated approach to the planning of fire services for such huge congregation and erection of temporary structure", says ...

Akhil Bharatiya Shri Panch Nirmohi AKhara and All India Akhara Parishad have threatened to boycott the upcoming Kumbh Mela, if their demand to reserve certain land to set up a sadhu gram on a permanent basis was not met. "Instead of reserving ...

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday cancelled his address at Harvard University in the US on the Kumbh Mela. Umesh Raghuvanshi reports. Poll: Akhilesh Yadav cancels Harvard lecture: what do you think of it?

India's recently ended Kumbh Mela festival, which attracted 10 million Hindus to a short stretch of the Ganges River over 55 days, was a reminder of the perils of poor sanitation. With pilgrims using leaky latrines and defecating on open ground, ...

Almost two months have passed since the largest human gathering, the Maha Kumbh Mela, concluded here, registering a mammoth 100 million devotees over 55 days. Huge banners and hoardings welcomed v...

In February 2013, television and film producer Ekta Kapoor made her maiden visit to Lucknow on her way to the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad. She had said ecstatically, I didn't know how beautiful Lucknow is. I am coming here to shoot my next film. I ...

NASHIK: The Maharashtra government has made a provision of Rs 340 crore in its annual budget for Nashik and to be held in 2015-16, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said here. Chavan said this after launching the Trimbakeshwar's Akhil Bharatiya Shri ...

He was to lead a delegation during the trip to Harvard University in Boston to attend a session on Kumbh Mela which he and Khan ultimately boycotted to protest the latter's detention at the Boston airport on Wednesday.

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 ...