BJP Leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi emphasized the need for communal harmony in response to confusion over administrative guidelines for the Kanwar Yatra. Naqvi and UP Minister Kapil Dev Aggarwal clarified that the guidelines aim to respect Kanwariyas' faith by ensuring food shops along the ro
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath performed ‘havan’ and 'rudrabhishek' of Lord Shiv at Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur on the sixth Monday of 'Sawan' month.
The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister was on a visit to Rali Chauhan village where he awarded Rs two lakh in compensation to the families of those who lost their lives and 50 thousand to the injured.
The villagers in Meerut staged a protest after six kanwariyas were electrocuted to death when their vehicle they were travelling in came in contact with an high-tension overhead wire in the Bhagwanpur area.
On the initiative of SSP Haridwar Ajay Singh, a cleanliness campaign was launched at Vishnu Ghat to clean up the garbage spread around Vishnu Ghat during the Kanwar Mela.
Six Kanwariyas died due to electrocution on Saturday after the vehicle they were travelling in came in contact with an electric wire in the Rali Chauhan village under the Bhavanpur police station limits in Meerut, according to the police.
According to officials, the incident took place in Bhawanpur's Rali Chauhan village in Meerut district when the vehicle of Kanwariyas came in contact with a low-hanging high-tension power line.
More than three crore devotees of Lord Shiva have, so far, thronged to Haridwar to collect holy water from the Ganges for "Jalabhishek" during the month of Saawan.
The Chief Minister directly reached the Delhi-Meerut highway from Saharanpur, where he showered flowers on the thousands of Shiva devotees gathered there.
Based on a preliminary investigation, it has come to light that one of the trucks, which was bound for Delhi, crossed the central divider of the GT Karnal road and rammed the other truck, carrying 20–23 Kanwariyas, coming from the opposite direction, police said.