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Sunday, July 20, 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

Fauja Singh’s death shows Indian roads remain a national emergency—474 lives lost every day

Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.