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Last modified on Mon 12 Apr 2021 11.42 EDT More than two million devotees bathed in the River Ganges on Monday despite soaring rates of new Covid-19 cases across India, a second wave that has struck down Bollywood stars, sent migrant workers fleeing from cities and contributed to the slowing of vaccination programmes around the world. The largest bathing day of the Hindu religious festival Kumbh Mela in the northern Indian city of Haridwar highlighted the immense challenge facing officials in t...

By Jessie Yeung, Esha Mitra and Manveena Suri, CNN Updated 4:26 AM ET, Thu April 1, 2021 Hindu devotees attend evening prayers during Kumbh Mela in Haridwar on March 11. New Delhi (CNN)Massive crowds of Hindus began arriving in the northern Indian city of Haridwar on Thursday for the largest religious pilgrimage on Earth, even as experts warned it could cause a surge in Covid-19 cases as the country grapples with a second wave. The months-long Kumbh Mela festival, one of the most important Hin...

SHARE India began vaccinating tens of thousands of people above the age of 45 on Thursday in its biggest push yet against a surge in coronavirus cases. The new daily since early October. The worlds second-most populous country aims to immunise 400 million people after expanding the programme, which was restricted to the over-60s and people with serious health conditions, a government official said. "Our requirement is 400 million people to be vaccinated. That is our minimum requirement, our t...

Quality problem at Johnson & Johnson plant could ruin millions of vaccine doses. French President Emmanuel Macron imposed nationwide restrictions as hospitals in parts of the country and ICUs near capacity. share with Facebook Quality problem at Johnson & Johnson plant could ruin millions of vaccine doses By Jen Christensen, CNN The New York Times reported Wednesday that workers at Emergent BioSolutions, the Baltimore plant that has been making Johnson & Johnsons Covid-19 vaccine, accidental...

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Published March 11, 2021, 1:31 PM Naked, dreadlocked holymen were among hundred of thousands of jubilant Hindu pilgrims who thronged the banks of India’s Ganges river on Thursday, ignoring any coronavirus threat, for one of the nation’s most famous and colorful religious festivals. Authorities in Haridwar expect 2.5 million people for the Maha Shivratri festival, one of three auspicious bathing days over the next month as part of a major gathering called the Kumbh Mela. Hindu devotees take ...

Naked, dreadlocked holymen were among hundreds of thousands of jubilant Hindu pilgrims who thronged the banks of India’s Ganges river on Thursday, ignoring any coronavirus threat, for one of the nation’s most famous and colorful religious festivals.

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PatnaDaily A few months ago, we had received a letter from Mr. Donald L. Reid of Ayrshire, Scotland, informing us that there is yet another place on this planet that shares the name of the capital city of Bihar, Patna. Since then, we, at PatnaDaily.Com, had been toying with the idea of sharing this information with our visitors but for one reason or another, the idea remained just that, an idea! This past December, however, things changed as Mr. Reid, a social historian who has writt...

Hindu devotees in parts of northern India took a holy dip in River Ganges on 'Basant Panchami' or spring festival on Tuesday amid coronavirus pandemic.