The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Monday sprang a surprise by winning the Talegaon Municipal Council polls, held in the backdrop of perceived anti-NCP sentiment after the Maval farmers' agitation in which three persons were killed. The NCP won 15 of the 23 seats while the party ruling the Council — the BJP — won only eight seats.
NCP wrests Talegaon council
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Maha Kumbh Mela, held in Allahabad every 12 years and billed as the biggest religious gathering in the world, has seen a growing number of pilgrims and visitors for a holy bath at the confluence of the three holy rivers, Sangam, where water levels are at the lowest in many years.
