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5 Secret Places Where Radha and Krishna Still Love and Meet Even Today

When we read that Radha and Krishna still meet every day, the mature mind may ask: How can that be? The wiser question is: What does it mean that it continues? Radha represents devotion. Krishna represents divine consciousness. Their meeting is the meeting of longing and fulfillment. Of seeker and…

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6 Holy Rivers That Prove Lord Shiva’s Presence Still Flows Across India

There is a reason why Lord Shiva is never imagined without water. A stream flows from his matted locks. Devotees pour water over the Shivling in every temple. His abode is the Himalayas, the birthplace of mighty rivers. In Hindu thought, water is not just a natural element. It is…

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Mahseer Fish: The King of Indian Freshwater Rivers

Why Is Mahseer Called the King of Indian Rivers?

Close-up of Mahseer fish highlighting its large scales, powerful body, and royal appearance.

Mahseer earns this royal title due to its unmatched power and endurance in Indian rivers. It can swim against strong currents, leap over obstacles, and survive in rocky…

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5 Rivers from the Mahabharata That Teach Us About Life and Karma

“गङ्गे च यमुने चैव गोदावरी सरस्वति । नर्मदे सिन्धु कावेरी जलेऽस्मिन् सन्निधिं कुरु ॥” This ancient shloka is still recited in homes and temples across India. In a single prayer, it invokes the presence of sacred rivers in a handful of water. That simple act reveals something profound. In Indian…

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Jaya Ekadashi 2026: Date, Timings, Vrat Katha and Rituals

Jaya Ekadashi is the day in which we can pay homage to Lord Vishnu for sustaining the balance of this world. This sacred time period is an excellent opportunity for us to purify our hearts and achieve the divine grace of Bhagwan. Lord Vishnu’s blessings, particularly on Jaya Ekadashi, will…

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Ratha Saptami 2026: Date, Timings, Rituals & Surya Dev's Blessings

Ratha Saptami is a spiritually and religiously significant festival that honours Lord Surya. This is the best opportunity for us to express our gratitude to the God who gifts the world its vitality, wisdom and effulgence. It is believed that Lord Surya was born on the highly auspicious day of…

Times Life

Thousands of Hindu devotees take holy dip at Sangam during Magh Mela festival

Hindu holy men and devotees take a dip in Sangam, the confluence of Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers to celebrate India’s Magh Mela festival.

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Delhi CM rewrites pollution science at media summit. The follow-ups? Missing like the data

At the HT Leadership Summit, NDTV’s Padmaja Joshi sat down with Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, and then spent the next several minutes watching Gupta bench-press the limits of logic. What followed was a live demonstration of how confidently stated nonsense can still aspire to be policy.

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Last year, L-G slammed Delhi govt over pollution. This time, he is in a balloon

While Delhi’s residents wheeze their way through a toxic gas chamber and the Yamuna foams up like a hazardous bubble bath, Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has found the perfect moment to launch hot air balloon rides on the banks of the polluted river.

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Month after govt’s Chhath ‘clean-up’ claims, Yamuna is toxic white again

Pollution levels in Delhi’s Yamuna have risen again, with toxic foam reappearing near Kalindi Kunj. This comes despite the Delhi government’s tall claims during Chhath Puja that the river had been cleaned – a claim we challenged in an earlier report.

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Ekta Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty and a queue of netas: The great suck-up at Baba Bageshwar's yatra

Dhirendra Shastri’s “Sanatan Hindu Ekta Padyatra,” which began from Delhi on November 7 and ended in Vrindavan on November 16, carried the usual packaging of unity, devotion, purity, and cultural reaffirmation. It demanded a clean Yamuna river and a minor phenomenon called “Hindu Rashtra,” nothing too significant.

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TV Newsance 319: Bihar dramebaazi and Yamuna PR wash

This week on TV Newsance, the drama shifts from Delhi’s ghats to Bihar’s gullies, and the Godi anchors are outdoing themselves yet again!

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Reality check of the Yamuna ‘clean-up’: Animal carcasses, a ‘pond’, and open drains

The Rekha Gupta government in Delhi claims that it has reduced pollution in the Yamuna ahead of the Chhath festival. The water may not be fit to drink, but it’s supposedly clean enough for devotees to bathe in and perform rituals. From Chief Minister Rekha Gupta to her ministers –…

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The Yamuna PR wash: Anchors interview Delhi CM next to ‘pond’, no question on pollution data

This weekend, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta sat for interviews with DD anchor Sudhir Chaudhary and Aaj Tak’s Anjana Om Kashyap at Vasudev Ghat. The backdrop of these interviews wasn’t the river. It was apparently a man-made pond, which the AAP claims was filled with filtered water from the Sonia…

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Delhi floods: Is climate change or poor drainage to blame?

Ever wondered why just a couple of hours of rain leads to massive traffic snarls in Delhi-NCR? Can rising natural devastation only be attributed to climate change?

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Delhi floods: Thousands evacuated as low-lying regions get inundated

The Yamuna River is in spate, and India’s capital, Delhi, is yet again gripped by devastating floods. Following non-stop rainfall and after water was released from Haryana’s Hathnikund Barrage, Yamuna’s water level rose far above the danger mark. As a result, low-lying areas have been inundated, roads resembled rivers, and…

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Flood alert in India’s capital as river Yamuna breaches danger mark

Nearly 300,000 people were evacuated in the past 48 hours across the border in Pakistan’s Punjab province

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Critic to collaborator: Delhi L-G’s journey in 100 days of BJP govt

After his appointment as the Delhi Lieutenant Governor in May 2022, VK Saxena would often target the then AAP government in public over civic issues. But since the BJP government took charge in February 2025, his position seems to have softened.

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Delhi’s drainage crisis deepens as NGT deadline looms

As the latest desilting deadline approaches in Delhi, two drains – Sonia Vihar and Shastri Park – exemplify the paralysis within the capital’s drainage management system.

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Manjinder Singh Sirsa slams Alka Lamba over Yamuna remark

Delhi Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Friday hit out at Congress leader Alka Lamba over her 'photo-op' remark on the Yamuna cleaning efforts. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Focus on your own party; many people want to leave: Rekha Gupta reacts to Opposition criticism

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday hit out at the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), following their criticism of the newly formed government. She stated that her government has already taken key decisions within a day of assuming office. Read further on Dynamite News:

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On first day as Delhi CM, Rekha Gupta, cabinet members attends 'Yamuna aarti'

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta who was sworn in in a grand ceremony on Thursday in the national capital's Ramlila Maidan attended the evening aarti on the banks of the Yamuna here. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Mahakumbh waters unsafe for bathing: A report finds faecal bacteria 13 times over safe limit

A Central Pollution Control Board report filed in the National Green Tribunal reveals that at several ghats in Prayagraj, where crores of devotees are attending the Mahakumbh, the water is unfit for bathing. In some locations, faecal coliform levels – indicating human and animal waste – were 13 times the…

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Yamuna: Fair to evict farmers from floodplains?

Despite National Green Tribunal’s strict guidelines prohibiting construction on the Yamuna floodplain, the Delhi Development Authority has been increasingly concretising several areas adjacent to the river, as reported previously by Newslaundry.

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Amit Shah condemns Kejriwal's 'poisoned Yamuna' remark, says he "committed a sin"

Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah continued his relentless attack against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Read further on Dynamite News.

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