Over two lakh lost and found in Kumbh!

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

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is finally off to United States to narrate the success story of the 2013 Kumbh Mela at the HarvardUniversityBusinessSchool on April 26. Leading a nine-member team, Akhilesh left for New Delhi on Tuesday. He will take Wednesday’s flight to London from where he will proceed straight to Boston after a day’s halt. The 55-day long festival concluded on the banks of the Ganga on March 10. This follows an invitation from the world’s leading ...

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 ...

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 ...

Allahabad : The penultimate bathing day of the 55-day Maha Kumbh- Maghi Poornima began early on Monday at the Sangam in Allahabad, with lakhs taking an early holy dip in the Ganga. The day is special as the "Kalpawasi" pilgrims end their month-long penance ...

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 ...

Lucknow : The Akhilesh Yadav-led SP government on 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 ...