There is hardly any crowd now at the bathing ghats where droves of sadhus and common devotees had gathered for a dip in the river on the ‘s...

Could the Kumbh mela have been called off? It calls for considerable courage on the part of the political authority to stand up to and over...

In February 2020, Saudi Arabia closed the two holy sites of Mecca and Medina to not expose Haj pilgrims to Covid. But Uttarakhand authoriti...

Niranjani Akhada, one of the 13 akhadas of seers participating in the Kumbh, had announced in Haridwar on Thursday that the Kumbh Mela was ...

According to the mela administration, 332 people (of 14,915 tested) reported Covid positive on Thursday. The administration doesn’t have an...

"The main Shahi Snan held on the occasion of Mesh Sankranti on April 14 is over. Many in our akhada are showing Covid-19 symptoms. So, for ...

Night curfew will be in force in the state from 10.30 pm to 5 am but employees commuting to their offices in industrial units which work in...

The 'royal bath' marked Mesh Sankranti and Baisakhi, and fell two days after a similar convergence of 'sadhus' and other devotees for the s...

The seers of different akhadas, led by their Mahamandaleshwaras, by turns took out grand Shobha Yatras through the main thoroughfare of the...

This comes after the arrest of BJP leader Chinmayanand on charges of of intimidation and sexual harassment of a law student.

It will focus on the behaviour of its members in an “age of distractions”. This comes after the arrest of BJP leader Chinmayanand on charge...

Akhileshwaranand said nothing much should be read into the government granting him the cabinet rank as he deserved it by virtue of being th...

The controversy is rooted in a split in the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad that had taken place during the Haridwar Kumbh of 2010.