The condition of river Ganga is critical and no new rejuvenation work has started along the stretch from Haridwar to Ganga Sagar under the four year rule of the present dispensation, noted water ...

Officials said around 780,000 pilgrims had reached the island a day before Makar Sankranti on Wednesday; last year, 1.5 million pilgrims had reached by this time for the Mela Pilgrims from across ...

Ganga Sagar mela has been now put up before a worldwide audience. KOLKATA: Ganga Sagar mela has been now put up before a worldwide audience. This has been possible after 'RSGB, Island on the air' - a ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said the central government does not provide funds for the annual Gangasagar Mela, which is held in West Bengal, though it provides lots of ...

Several safety arrangements are being made to host the Ganga-Sagar Mela amid the COVID-19 pandemic, besides the authorities are also planning to send the holy water to the devotees by post and ...

New Delhi [India], Oct 7 (ANI): Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Monday announced that a month-long river rafting expedition between Devprayag in Uttarakhand to Ganga Sagar in West Bengal ...

The Ganga Sagar Mela ended in controversy with the local CPM legislator demanding that the annual festival be handed over to the Centre. CPM MLA Provanjan Mondal said if the Centre controls the Mela, ...

The Ganga that flows through Bengal hardly retains a trace of the pristine waters originating in the Gomukh glacier that is counted among the primary headstreams of the holy river, according to river ...