Calcutta HC gives conditional nod to hold Gangasagar Mela

Calcutta High Court on Friday allowed holding of the Gangasagar Mela, which begins on January 8, strictly following the COVID-19 restrictions and ordered setting up of a committee which may......

India Is Feeling Cold...

IMAGE: Doesn't the sadhu feel cold as he rests in a temporary shelter at a transit camp at Babughat in Kolkata on the way to Gangasagar island for the upcoming Makar Sankranti festival.......

Seven killed in stampede at Gangasagar mela

At least seven pilgrims were killed and nine injured, four of them seriously, when a stampede broke out at the Gangasagar mela in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal early on Thursday. Around......

HC drops Suvendu from Gangasagar Mela monitoring panel

Calcutta high court on Tuesday dropped the leader of the opposition in the state assembly from a three member committee formed on January 7 to monitor compliance of Covid restrictions at Gangasagar......