After our darshan, I was moving with the others towards a large banyan tree under which Swamiji was about to begin his sermon of the day: the story of Ganga Sagar. The sun was strong but the tree’s ...

Professor Jitendra Pandey has been invited to deliver the prestigious Sir Stephen Schneider Lecture. He is the first ...

The West Bengal Government on January 15 claimed that pilgrims visiting the Ganga Sagar Mela this year have surpassed all the previous records with about one crore pilgrims visiting the Sagar Island ...

About 65 lakh pilgrims from across the country have visited Sagar island to take a holy dip at the confluence of river Ganga and the Bay of Bengal during the Ganga Sagar Mela, West Bengal Minister for ...

Ganga Sagar Mela takes place every year around Makar Sankranti festival. On the auspicious day of Makar Sankranti, the pilgrimage takes a dip in the holy water of Ganga in the morning while worshiping ...

Lakhs of pilgrims defied the cold weather to take a holy dip at Ganga Sagar, the confluence of the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, on Makar Sankranti. The event, marked by chanting hymns, signifies the ...

West Bengal Chief Minister on Tuesday said her government would build a five-km-long bridge over a river connecting the mainland with the Sagar Island, where the annual Gangasagar Mela is held, since ...

Scores of devotees from the different corners of the country gathered to take the holy dip at confluence of river Ganga and Bay of Bengal on Makar Sankranti on Sunday. A thick blanket of security ...

South Kolkata residents have of late been bearing the brunt of the city’s air pollution, activities in the Ganga Sagar region being one of the culprits. The northern part of the city is usually more ...