New Delhi: Stampedes at temples and other religious places in India have claimed nearly 900 lives in the past nine years, including those who died in Friday night's melee at Sabarimala shrine. Most recently, on March 4, 2010, about 63 people were killed and 15 injured when a gate at Kripalu Maharaj's Ashram at Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh collapsed during distribution of food on the occasion of a ritual, for...
04:07 PM, Jan 15, 2011
An estimated 30 mn people had gathered for the Maha Kumbh in 2001. ...
08:14 AM, Jan 14, 2010
The religious gathering that began on January 14 will end on April 28 ...
08:01 AM, Jan 14, 2010
Approximately, 16, 000 security personnel have been deployed. ...
02:41 PM, Jan 12, 2010
With this events guide, you will know exactly where you have to be next year. ...
12:40 PM, Jan 07, 2010
It's not just symbols of faith, but also on the shopping list of new age sadhus are the latest gadgets and gizmos. ...
08:50 AM, Jan 23, 2007
The fourth auspicious day of bathing and the third and final
shahi snan will take place on Tuesday. ...
11:57 PM, Jan 22, 2007
Ardh Kumbh in Allahabad reflects the changing face of spiritualism in the country with gurus also moving with the times. ...
06:23 PM, Jan 22, 2007
Congress President Sonia Gandhi could soon be taking a holy dip in the Ganges in Allahabad during the Ardh Kumba mela. ...
11:56 PM, Jan 21, 2007
Mulayam Singh Yadav has said the water flow at the Sangam this year was 10 times more than the previous Kumbh. ...
11:37 PM, Jan 19, 2007
Lakhs of pilgrims will take part on
mauni amavasya, the biggest and the most auspicious bathing day in Ardh Kumbh. ...
09:25 AM, Jan 19, 2007
The only thing she remembers about her family is that her eldest sister was once the Deputy Commissoner in Karnataka. ...
03:09 PM, Jan 18, 2007
People drop jaws looking at the
yoga kriyas of these grotesque saints who wear no clothes on their ash-covered bodies. ...
08:19 AM, Jan 18, 2007
A Bollywood-crazy British widow says doe-eyed former Miss World Aishwarya Rai should turn a 'Sanyasin'. ...
03:45 PM, Jan 17, 2007
The Ardh Kumbh attracted many celebrities who not only shed egos to became one with the crowd but were crowd pullers. ...
08:23 AM, Jan 17, 2007
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