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TopicKumbh Mela

Topic: Kumbh Mela

What is Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, body under spotlight after Narendra Giri’s ‘suicide’

Mahant Narendra Giri was elected president of ABAP, apex body of the 13 main Hindu akharas, in 2014, and re-elected in October 2019. He was found dead Monday.

AAP alleges corruption in organisation of 2019 Kumbh, cites CAG report

According to the CAG report, there were 'huge irregularities' in the expenditure of Rs 2,700-crore allocated for organising the Kumbh, AAP MP Sanjay Singh said.

Cairn moving to seize Indian assets embarrassing. Modi govt had time to end retrospective tax

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68% in Uttarakhand think it was ‘irresponsible’ to organise Kumbh this year, survey shows

Of those who said the Kumbh should have been cancelled, 15 per cent held the Modi government responsible, while nearly 40 per cent blamed the state.

Ex-Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Rawat demands judicial enquiry into Kumbh Mela Covid testing scam

Current Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Rawat remarked Thursday that the Covid testing scam was from before he took charge as CM. He also said a probe was underway.

Haridwar administration orders probe into allegations of fake Covid reports issued during Kumbh

Investigations had revealed that many private labs issued fake Covid test reports in the name of random people on the basis of their identity cards and phone numbers.

Vaccinated late, ‘left to fend for ourselves’, airlines staff say as Covid kills 14 pilots

National carrier Air India lost five pilots, Vistara two. IndiGo was the worst hit with seven deaths. Airline employees blame management for delayed vaccination.

Shouldn’t have gone to Kumbh, ‘Covid-guilty’ mela returnees now say in MP’s Vidisha

From MP, it was Vidisha district that sent highest number of devotees to Kumbh. Many tested positive for Covid on return. Cases surged in MP after people returned from Kumbh.

A Bengaluru woman returned from Kumbh, tested positive for Covid & ‘infected 33 people’

The 67-year-old is suspected of having passed on the virus to others in her family, including her psychiatrist daughter-in-law, who likely unknowingly infected patients and colleagues

100 to 2,000+, Dehradun’s daily Covid cases see huge rise as Kumbh ends, but officials deny link

Dehradun, which borders Haridwar, is by far Uttarakhand's worst-hit district. Its cumulative total of Covid cases was 93,849 on 12 May, or 35% of the state’s 2,64,683. 

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Sudan shows what happens when the world is happy to let mass killers rule

Fourteen million refugees, and 25 million facing acute hunger, should be reason enough for the world to dismantle the dystopia in Sudan — even if the sadism of its rulers is not.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.