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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SAGAR LANDS: Two pilgrims died at the Ganga Sagar today even as over 14 lakh devotees took holy dip on the occasion of 'Makarsankranti' and offered puja at the Kapil Muni temple, a district official ...
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 ...
Professor Jitendra Pandey has been invited to deliver the prestigious Sir Stephen Schneider Lecture. He is the first ...
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 ...