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Thursday, September 25, 2025
TopicMaha Kumbh Mela

Topic: Maha Kumbh Mela

12 hours after Maha Kumbh stampede, TV news back to ‘unshakeable faith, excellent arrangement’

Watching television on Wednesday morning you would have thought that nothing had happened just six hours earlier.

I saw a Maha Kumbh stampede in the making during the first Shahi Snan

Reaching the Sangam waters was a challenge in itself—everyone was jostling for space, making it difficult to even catch a breath.

Akharas cancel Mauni Amavasya ‘Amrit Snan’ after ‘stampede-like’ situation at Mahakumbh, casualties feared

A stampede-like situation broke out earlier Wednesday at the Sangam, where several people, including women and children, suffered injuries.

Fact check: Priyanka Gandhi didn’t criticise govt spending on Kumbh Mela. Fake tweet is viral

While Priyanka Gandhi Vadra officially joined X on 10 February 2019, the viral tweet was posted on social media on 8 February 2019.

Fact check: Akhilesh Yadav didn’t attend Maha Kumbh Mela. His pictures are from Haridwar

Akhilesh Yadav's images are not from Prayagraj in UP but from Haridwar in Uttarakhand, where he participated in this year's Makar Sankranti festivities.

TV news covered religion with no Hindu-Muslim angle this week

With the focus on ‘Rituals, Reverences, Rites,’ news channels barely have time for other stories. The Delhi Assembly election campaign occasionally peeks in and out.

Fact Check: No fire broke out at Maha Kumbh Mela. Social media posts are of a mock drill

The X account of the Fire and Emergency Services of Uttar Pradesh Police clarified that the mock drill was conducted on 27 December 2024.

Maha Kumbh and India’s new-age sadhus—riding Bullets, making Reels

For the Bullet Baba, his worldly belongings are a bike, a tent, and a bag of clothes. He doesn’t live in any akhara or ashram.

Religion, money & sheer numbers—Maha Kumbh gives global media the quintessential ‘India story‘

International media questions Modi's 'populist facade', saying Indian democracy will face its most important test in small towns & villages where the bulk of the population still live.

On Camera

Watch Bigg Boss 19 if you have nothing to do than watch men and women with nothing to do

The moment Salman’s Saturday and Sunday show time ends, the oxygen is sucked out of the Bigg Boss house. All that’s left is toxic dioxide.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

‘Agni’ on the move—India successfully test-fires Agni-Prime nuclear missile from a train

With the latest test, India has the capability to launch a nuclear missile from under the sea, surface, air, and now from a railway network.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.