Kumbh Mela
- Telangana
Telangana: Twelve-day Manjeera Kumbha Mela begins
Hyderabad: Manjeera Kumbha Mela began with religious fervour and pomp at Sri Siddi Saraswathi Kshetram in Raghavapur village in Nyalkal mandal of Sangareddy District in Telangana State on Monday. The 12-day Manjeera…
- India
Uttarakhand SIT notice to three firms in alleged COVID testing scam in Kumbh
Dehradun: In the backdrop of allegations over irregularities in COVID-19 testing in Uttrakhand during the recently-concluded Kumbh, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Monday issued notices to three firms. According to SIT…
- India
Kumbh mela was biggest super spreader event: AICC official
Panaji: All India Congress Committee general secretary Dinesh Gundu Rao, on Saturday, said that the Kumbh mela organised in Uttarakhand amid the second Covid wave, was the “biggest super spreader event in the…
- India
Over 1 lakh COVID-19 test reports during Kumbh Mela were fake: Reports
Haridwar: A detailed investigation into the COVID-19 reports submitted during the Kumbh Mela this year, revealed that at least 1 lakh test reports were forged by a private agency and were fake.…
- India
India’s COVID-19 timeline: Cong’s Hasiba Amin destroys Modi govt’s claims in Twitter thread
New Delhi: Exposing the central government’s disastrous handling of the COVID-19 situation in India, Congress party’s national social media coordinator Hasiba Amin on Monday curated a timeline of events since the first…
- Featured News
The return of COVID – the States must take over now
Amir Ullah Khan Nahia Hussain In Telangana, the number of cases has peaked at 4000 daily in June 2020. The decline then onwards was gradual till we recorded 2700 cases on August…
- Top Stories
COVID-19: Sonia Gandhi attacks Modi over super-spreader events
New Delhi: In her opening remark in the CWC meeting, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi said the Covid-19 situation has become even more catastrophic and alleged that wilful patronage of super-spreader events…
- India
SC to hear plea for action against COVID-19 protocol violation during Assembly polls, Kumbh mela
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday will hear the Public Interest Litigation filed by Noida-based Advocate-on-Record (AOR), Sanjai Kumar Pathak, seeking directions for strict enforcement of COVID-19 pandemic guidelines and…
- India
BJP fired ex-Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Rawat for restricting Kumbh: Report
Haridwar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sacked the former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh from the post for insisting that the Kumbh Mela be restricted in view of rising COVID-19 cases, reported The…
- India
Online petition demands resignation from PM Narendra Modi
Hyderabad: An online petition created on Change.org platform on Saturday demanded resignation from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his gross mismanagement of COVID-19 crisis in the country and several other reasons. The…
- Top Stories
Kumbh ends: 70 lakh participated in ‘scaled down’ mela held amid virus surge
Dehradun: Seventy lakh devotees participated in Haridwar’s Kumbh Mela, the mammoth religious congregation which ended Friday after triggering a scare that it might have acted as a COVID-19 super-spreader . Despite the…
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Shiv Sena slams Centre over COVID-19 crisis, criticises SC for being ‘spectator’
Mumbai: In an editorial in its mouthpiece “Saamana”, the Shiv Sena on Thursday slammed the Central government over the ‘COVID-crisis’ across the country. It has also hit out at the Supreme Court…
- India
At ‘symbolic’ Kumbh Mela, at least 25K people gather on last holy dip
Uttarakhand: Despite the rise in COVID 19 cases that is causing the country to bleed inside out, at least 25,000 people attended the last ‘shahi snan’ (royal bath) at the Kumbh Mela…
- India
65 healthcare personnel deployed on Kumbh duty test positive for COVID-19
Rishikesh: Sixty-five healthcare personnel, including doctors, deployed on Kumbh duty have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said here on Friday. All of them have been kept in isolation, they said. Sixty-five healthcare…
- Hyderabad
COVID-19: Telangana health dept asks Kumbh returnees to isolate for 14 days
Hyderabad: Amid the rise in COVID-19 cases in Telangana, the state Health Department has urged people returning from the Kumbh Mela in Uttarakhand to isolate for 14 days. It has also asked…
