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Friday, August 15, 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

Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

President awards 1st set of Sarvottam Yudh Seva medals since Kargil, 7 honoured for leading Op Sindoor

This year, the Indian Air Force received four of the seven awards, followed by the Indian Army with two medals, and the Indian Navy with one. 

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.