WSJ
Apr 29, 2021 2:00 PM ET
The country hit a new global high for the pandemic on Wednesday reporting more than 360,000 new daily cases. It recorded 3,293 deaths, the highest single-day toll for the country...
Satyendra Das, an 82-year-old Hindu priest in the city of Ayodhya in the state of Uttar Pradesh, said most of the tens of thousands of holy men who went for ritual bathing in the Ganges were from other Indian states such as Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat. He skipped the festival this year because of Covid-19, but he said he knows of at least two holy men in Ayodhya who became infected after attending Kumbh Mela...