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 ...

The Mela will start on ... Later King Sagar’s sons came to fetch the horse and found it close to Kapil Muni’s ashram and mistook him as a thief. Kapil Muni then cursed the boys and turned them into ...

The Mahakumbh stampede in Uttar Pradesh early on Wednesday has snowballed into a political controversy after BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari criticised chief minister Mamata Banerjee for her ...

Krisnakant Pandey, who came from Lucknow with his wife, agreed. “I have been to Kumbh Mela a number of times which is well-managed but Ganga Sagar is as good, or even we call it better if you consider ...

"In the past, overcrowded country boats caused mishaps," said a State minister.Ganga Sagar Mela remains one of the largest pilgrimage gatherings globally, blending religious traditions, attire ...

The 10-day hiatus imposed by the festival finally ended, and Subhodip was ready to return to his daily routine. Gangasagar Mela held in Sagar Island, in the South 24 Parganas district, is situated ...

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 ...

Contending with the Maha Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj, the organisers of the Gangasagar Mela, held at the confluence of the Ganga with the ... parts of the State to Sagar island, including about ...

Story continues below this ad The CM added, “The Kumbh Mela has an advantage: it gets thousands of crores from the Centre. When I had come to power, there was no place to stay, no power, such ...

Image Source : PTI (FILE) A man and children perform for alms at Sagar Island on a foggy winter morning, ahead of the Gangasagar Mela festival ... of the sacred Ganga and the Bay of Bengal.