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Mega movers Rlys helps millions enter, exit Sangam City

Mahakumbh Nagar, Jan. 31 -- On Mauni Amavasya, over 8 crore devotees took a dip at the Sangam. In the days leading up to the festival, millions of devotees poured into Prayagraj, prompting the Prayagr... Read More


CS, DGP inspect stampede site, choke points

MAHAKUMBH NAGAR/LUCKNOW, Jan. 31 -- UP chief secretary Manoj Kumar Singh and DGP Prashant Kumar on Thursday reached Prayagraj on the instructions of chief minister Yogi Adityanath and visited the Mela... Read More


Pilgrims in droves continue holy dip

MAHAKUMBH NAGAR (PRAYAGRAJ), Jan. 31 -- Pilgrims' enthusiasm for the holy dip at Mahakumbh-2025 remains undiminished a day after Mauni Amavasya stampede that claimed 30 lives and left 60 injured, as d... Read More


3-member judicial commission to visit tragedy spot today

Lucknow, Jan. 31 -- Justice (retired) Harsh Kumar led three-member commission set up to probe the Mahakumbh stampede, has assumed charge and will visit the spot of the incident in the mela area in Pra... Read More


Devotee surge grips UP's religious centres

LUCKNOW, Jan. 31 -- Amid the huge surge of pilgrims primarily headed for Prayagraj, several thousand vehicles and people remain stranded for hours on different highways, as state authorities have been... Read More


H-1B debate is a vote on America's future

India, Jan. 30 -- The H-1B visa programme has been instrumental in driving the growth of America's tech industry over the past four decades. Through the years, millions of tech workers have come to th... Read More


Gandhi and the meaning of dharma and violence

India, Jan. 30 -- I had just got into a taxi when the driver began shouting at some unknown offender in the chaotic traffic. His rage was so overpowering that he started to get out of the cab, determi... Read More


The tragedy at Maha Kumbh

India, Jan. 30 -- It is tragic that at least 30 people died in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela ahead of the ritual Mauni Amavasya bath. The Kumbh in Prayagraj, which takes place once in 12 ... Read More


The messaging in Uttarakhand's UCC

India, Jan. 30 -- There are two takeaways from the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Uttarakhand this week. The first is political. It sets the ball rolling on the last of the BJP's co... Read More


Securing future with a minerals mission

India, Jan. 30 -- "The treasury has its source in the mines; from the treasury, the army comes into being; with the treasury and the army the earth is obtained, with the treasury as its ornament," Cha... Read More