West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee formally inaugurated this year’s Ganga Sagar Mela on Thursday at Kolkata’s Outram Ghat, alongside monks from the Ramkrishna Vivekananda Mission, by paying ...

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Lakhs of pilgrims defied the cold weather to take a holy dip at Ganga Sagar, the confluence of the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, on Makar Sankranti. The event, marked by chanting hymns ...

Kolkata, Jan. 15 -- Lakhs of pilgrims defied the cold weather to take a holy dip at Ganga Sagar, the confluence of the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, on Makar Sankranti.

A family of pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh arrives on the beach at Sagar Island on Tuesday Photographs ... morning hours of the Makar Sankranti day at Ganga Sagar was about 1.25 degrees Celsius higher ...

Adequate police personnel led by senior IPS officers have been deployed in Sagar Island and approaching roads from Kolkata, she said, adding ... “Three helipads have also been made operational and the ...

Additionally, three new bridges were announced to enhance connectivity. Transportation to Sagar Island, the venue for the Ganga Sagar Mela, has been bolstered with a new helicopter service from ...

The Shankaracharya said this during his visit to the mela on Monday. On Tuesday, BJP MP Shamik Bhattacharya told The Indian Express, “The West Bengal BJP also wants the Ganga Sagar Mela to get the ...

From toilets for crores of people to ensuring that no one drowns in water, she hailed the government authorities for ...

Earlier it was difficult to reach Ganga Sagar because the water route was the main only means to reach it. However, nowadays it has become easily accessible for people to reach this place. The ritual ...