National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescuing an ill pilgrim Gangasagar Island, around 160 km south of Kolkata, on January 13, 2025. Sadhus and Hindu pilgrim's from all over the country come for the annual Hindu holy festival Gangasagar Mela with more than four hundred thousand Hindu pilgrims gathering at the Gangasagar to take a 'holy dip' in the ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar considered to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology..Pictures by Debajyoti Chakraborty.(Photo: Debajyoti Chakraborty/News Images)

12 January 2025

India- Makar Sankranti

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National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) rescuing an ill pilgrim Gangasagar Island, around 160 km south of Kolkata, on January 13, 2025. Sadhus and Hindu pilgrim's from all over the country come for the annual Hindu holy festival Gangasagar Mela with more than four hundred thousand Hindu pilgrims gathering at the Gangasagar to take a 'holy dip' in the ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar considered to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology..Pictures by Debajyoti Chakraborty.(Photo: Debajyoti Chakraborty/News Images)

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