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No-vehicle zone, no VVIP pass: Big changes after Kumbh stampede

A day after a stampede at the Maha Kumbh left 30 dead, the Uttar Pradesh government ramped up efforts to ensure crowd management and safety of devotees who continued to flock in Prayagraj in large......

UP CM issues fresh directives after Kumbh stampede

Following the stampede at the Maha Kumbh on Mauni Amavasya Wednesday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath issued a slew of guidelines on crowd management, traffic flow, prevention of build-up of......

Mrs Steve Jobs visits Varanasi's Kashi Vishwanath Temple

Kailashanand Giri Maharaj of Niranjani Akhara, along with Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, visited the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh on Saturday.......

Officers with Ardh Kumbh experience to handle Maha Kumbh post stampede

The Uttar Pradesh government has deployed two senior IAS officers, who were part of the team that successfully conducted the 2019 Ardh Kumbh, to oversee the smooth conduct of the Maha Kumbh Mela in......

Kumbh devotees walk 15 km for bus; thousands stranded at rly station

It is quarter to 10 pm on Thursday. A group of more than a dozen pilgrims, tired after a nearly 30-km walk to and from Triveni Sangam, take a rest for a while on the side of a road near a mustard......

15 holidays for central govt staff in 2012

The government on Thursday released the list of 17 holidays for its staff in Delhi for 2012.However, three of these holidays fall on Sundays and one on a Saturday and hence the effective number of......

India slashes holidays for central staff

Government employees will have fewer holidays in 2010. Although the government has yet to act upon the Second Administrative Reforms Commission's recommendations to reduce staff holidays, it has......

Essar recommences work on Rs 8000-cr refinery

The Rs 5,700-crore Essar Group has recommenced the 12 million tonne mega refinery project in Gujarat, stalled since 1999, after tying up with financial institutions as part of its efforts to emerge......

'Love is all shades of blues and hues'

Film folk get romantic on Valentine's Day, and post loved-up pictures and messages. Photograph: Kind courtesy Kriti Kharbanda/Instagram Kriti Kharbanda shares a picture with Pulkit Samrat and......

When Lataji Was Devastated

Biswajit, movie heart-throb of the 1960s, remembers The Legend. IMAGE: Biswajit with Hemant Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar. Photograph: Kind courtesy Biswajit/Instagram Matinee idol of the 1960s,......

PIX: Katrina, Abhishek at Saraswati Puja

Prayer time in Bollywood! Barfi! and Jagga Jasoos Director Anurag Basu organised a Saraswati Puja at his home. Katrina Kaif was one of the attendees. Katrina performs the puja.......

'Meri awaaz hi pehchan hai'

'There was no other Lata Mangeshkar, there is none and there won't be any.' IMAGE: Master Dinanath Mangeshkar with wife Shevanti and daughter Asha (on her mother's lap), Lata (to her father's......

Wrestling Federation of India to relocate office from Brij Bhushan's home

IMAGE: Wrestling Federation of India, led by president Sanjay Singh, has been functioning from its old address -- the long-time home of its former chief and five-time BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan......

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