The curtain came down on Sunday on the Kumbh 2013, the biggest religious congregation on earth, with over 70 lakh people taking a holy dip at Sangam on Maha Shivratri. ...
04:30 AM, Mar 11, 2013
The proverbial story of brothers and families getting separated and lost during the Kumbh Mela in Bollywood potboilers is taking place in Allahabad. The Maha Kumbh Mela is the biggest festival and takes place every 12 years in Allahabad. ...
11:33 AM, Feb 11, 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
Around 5 lakh pilgrims on Monday took a holy dip at Gangasagar, the confluence of Ganga with Bay of Bengal, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Arun Mishra along with relatives and West Bengal Industries Minister Partho Chatterjee and his family also took a holy dip as the auspicious hour approached after offering puja at the Kapil Muni Temple. ...
12:51 PM, 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
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
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
Itanagar: Nearly 75,000 devotees, including hundreds of sadhus from across the country, took a holy dip in Parshuram Kund in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh on the occasion of Makar Sankranti on Sunday. Most of the pilgrims, from Nepal, Manipur, Maharastra, Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and various parts of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh made a beeline to the holy site since January 13 last, Lohit deputy commissioner R K Sharma...
12:10 PM, Jan 16, 2012
As you visit any of the shops selling kites, you will discover the gloom that greeted one at the start of the week is replaced with a sigh of relief. After all, with the city's denizens on a kite shopping spree, traders who complained of lacklustre business till last week have finally got their smiles back. If you are wondering where to spot that Chinese-designer kite besides the humble paper...
08:54 AM, Jan 14, 2012
BANGALORE: The scene has shifted from Brigade Road and M G Road to the markets in the city " Jayanagar Fourth Block, Madiwala Market, Gandhi Bazaar and K R Market. While most of these markets buzz with activity in the evenings, on Friday morning, a visitor to the markets may be forgiven to have thought that its a weekend. Heaps of sugarcane, bunches of fresh turmeric, till seeds, mounds of...
08:44 AM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Left Front government in Kerala, headed by VS Achuthanandan, on Friday, filed an affidavit in the High Court on the Sabarimala tragedy that happened last week. In its affidavit, the government said that it will bring into effect a permanent system to ensure the safety of the pilgrims. The Left Front government has also promised to ensure better crowd management practice be put into place. Crime Branch...
12:18 PM, Jan 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Kerala police on Tuesday submitted its report on what sparked the Sabarimala stampede. According to the investigating officer IGP B Sandhya, an autorickshaw parked on top of the hill toppled, triggering the stampede. There were 11 policemen on the spot, and the report says the police did their best to control the stampede. The High Court had on Monday pulled up the government for the tragedy and...
09:55 PM, Jan 18, 2011
New Delhi: Kerala High Court on Monday came down heavily on Kerala government and its various departments, saying that lack of coordination among them caused the tragic stampede in Idukki district which resulted in the death of over 100 pilgrims and injuries to 50 others. Solutions were offered by a judicial probe in 1999 following a similar stampede. Among the measures was the need to monitor alternate routes to the...
11:16 PM, Jan 17, 2011
In different parts of the country, people are celebrating Pongal, Makar Sankranti, Bihu and Uttaraayan. ...
01:39 PM, Jan 15, 2011
Vandiperiyar: The spot where the stampede broke out leaving over 100 dead has been a traditional forest trekking path used mostly by devotees from Tamil Nadu to reach the hill shrine of Lord Ayyaappa. The area is known as 'Pulmedu' as it is a large stretch of grassland in Periyar Wildlife Reserve in the Western Ghats. The trekking route is a short-cut for pilgrims from places like Cumbon, Theni and...
12:58 PM, Jan 15, 2011
Bodies recovered from the stampede site near Sabarimala were being taken to the health care centre for postmortem. ...
11:45 AM, Jan 15, 2011
Eyewitnesses speak about the turn of events of the accidents near Sabarimala, that left more than 100 dead. ...
11:23 AM, Jan 15, 2011
Vandiperiyar (Kerala): In a major tragedy in Kerala's Idukki district over 100 pilgrims died and 50 others injured, seven of them seriously, in a stampede that occurred at Uppupara near Vandiperiyar on Friday evening. The accident occurred near at 8.30 PM on Friday evening. Sabarimala spokesperson Rahul Easwar said that 109 pilgrims were dead and 12, some of them children, were still missing. He also said that Kerala Chief Minister...
07:29 AM, Jan 15, 2011
