The two month long Maha Kumbh Mela is on at Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad and it is being called the greatest show on earth. People are coming together for a holy dip from across the globe. Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose met up with an American guru at Kumbh who became a part of the Juna Akhada more than four decades ago. ...
10:30 AM, Jan 16, 2013
The world's largest gathering of people, the 55-day Kumbh congregation, began in Allahabad on Monday with tens of thousands of devotees, led by ash-smeared Naga ascetics, taking a dip at the holy confluence of three rivers. ...
11:58 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Foreigners coming for the Maha Kumbh is not new. Now the tourists from foreign countries are trying to make things easier for Indian devotees. A groups of Australian tourists, who are in Allahabad, are making boats specifically for pilgrims, which is replica of the one used in the film 'Life of Pi'. ...
05:20 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Tonight at 10:30, CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel the relevance of the Kumbh Mela in modern society. You can send your viewpoint and questions on the issue here or tweet them to us
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10:58 AM, Jan 15, 2013
The Maha Kumbh Mela started in Allahabad as around one crore people took a dip in the holy Sangam. ...
11:56 PM, Jan 14, 2013
A sea of humanity converged for the religious event dubbed as the "greatest show on earth". ...
11:51 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Ash-smeared naked 'naga' ascetics, sadhus and seers perched atop decked up chariots led millions of pilgrims in taking a holy dip in the Sangam - the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati - marking commencement of the nearly two-month-long Maha Kumbh on Monday. ...
11:23 PM, Jan 14, 2013
It was a rare 'sangam' of technology and tradition on day one of Maha Kumbh 2013. ...
06:27 PM, Jan 14, 2013
More than 10 million pilgrims gather at Allahabad for the Maha Kumbh Mela. Shreya Dhoundial joined IBNLive readers from Allahabad and shared her experience. ...
04:30 PM, Jan 14, 2013
The world's largest gathering of people, the 55-day Kumbh congregation, began in Allahabad on Monday with tens of thousands of devotees, led by ash-smeared Naga ascetics, taking a dip at the holy confluence of three rivers - the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati. ...
11:20 AM, Jan 14, 2013
Tonight at 10:30, CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts if the Kumbh Mela is the greatest celebration of India's diversity. You can send your viewpoint and questions on the issue here or tweet them to us
@Face_the_Nation or
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08:41 AM, Jan 14, 2013
Maha Kumbh Mela, often described as the greatest show on earth, is all set to begin on Monday with millions of people from across the country and abroad expected to attend the religious gathering in Allahabad. The Mela, held every 12 years, will go on for next two months and will conclude on Maha Shivaratri on March 10. ...
08:22 AM, Jan 14, 2013
After 12 long years, the Maha Kumbh Mela is back and the city of Allahabad is teeming with pilgrims as they prepare for the first of the holy baths at the Sangam on Makar Sankranti on Monday. ...
10:36 PM, Jan 13, 2013
Keeping in mind the lakhs who will throng Allahabad for the Kumbh Mela starting on Monday, the Ministry of Railways has announced steps to help passengers. Besides running special trains and adding coaches in popular trains, additional ticket counters have opened at the Allahabad railway station. ...
07:40 PM, Jan 13, 2013
After 12 long years, the Maha Kumbh Mela is back and the city of Allahabad is teeming with pilgrims as they prepare for the first of the holy baths at the Sangam on Makar Sankranti on Monday. ...
05:51 PM, Jan 13, 2013
Airlines, hotels, tour operators and Uttar Pradesh in general are likely to reap a windfall during the Maha Kumbh Mela in the state with the government likely to see its coffers swelling by Rs 12,000 crore, according to an industry body. ...
06:24 PM, Jan 11, 2013
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court is set to hear a petition challenging erstwhile Uttar Pradesh Governor TV Rajeswar's refusal to grant sanction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute former-UP chief minister Mayawati and her cabinet colleague Naseemuddin Siddiqui in the alleged Taj corridor scandal. ...
09:08 AM, Jan 11, 2013
The countdown for Maha Kumbh 2013, beginning on Jan 14, has started, as hundreds of religious seers and followers of the Juna Akahada, Agni and Avahan Akahadas entered the Mela premises near the Sangam in Allahabad on Tuesday. ...
10:02 AM, Dec 19, 2012
A court in Allahabad is going to pronounce its order on a man convicted of killing his victims and indulging in cannibalism. The convict Raja Kalander alias Ram Niranjan (50) has been found guilty of killing a journalist Dhirendra Singh and several others. ...
04:05 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Lucknow: The eight-month-old Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Party (SP) government has been rapped by the Allahabad High Court for moving to release the accused of the 2006 serial bomb blasts in the temple city of Varanasi. A bench of justices RK Agarwal and RSR Maurya on Thursday observed: Today you are releasing them, tomorrow you may give them the Padma Bhushan. The court further said that whether those arrested were...
01:11 PM, Nov 23, 2012
