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Christmas drone show falsely portrayed as India's Kumbh Mela festival
Days before India started its mammoth Kumbh Mela festival, a video showing preparations for a nighttime light show surfaced in social media posts that falsely linked it to the six-week Hindu event. The video was in fact originally published by a US-based drone show company and shows a Christmas celebration.
India's Maha Kumbh Mela: A look at the gigantic pitcher festival
India began on Monday its Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, which is expected to draw more than 400 million visitors to the northern city of Prayagraj over six weeks, making for the largest gathering of humanity in the world.
The world’s largest gathering: how India plans to keep 400 million pilgrims safe at the Maha Kumbh Mela festival
The sheer scale of the Hindu festival makes it a disaster waiting to happen. From new underwater drones to AI surveillance, here’s what’s being done to avoid deadly crushes.
Kumbh Mela: 400 million to attend world's largest festival
The Kumbh Mela festival, the largest religious gathering in the world, has begun in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj.
India set for Maha Kumbh Mela, the world's largest gathering of humanity
Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival begins in India on Monday, a Hindu sacred event that will be the world's largest gathering of humanity as it showcases religion, spirituality, tourism and crowd management.
Maha Kumbh Mela festival: India's soft power on display
The Maha Kumbh Mela has got underway in northern India, with organisers expecting over 400 million visitors throughout the festival. In this week's show, we speak to India's permanent representative to UNESCO,
What makes the Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 so special this year?
Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, starting January 13 in Prayagraj, is marked by significant celestial configurations occurring every 144 ...
LIVE Updates | Maha Kumbh Mela 2025: PM Modi May Join Devotees For A Holy Dip At Sangam On THIS Date
It has been six days of Mahakumbh. During this time, more than 7 crore people have taken a holy dip in the Sangam. Congress ...
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Kumbh Mela: India's political parties see world's largest religious event as outreach opportunity
The world's biggest religious congregation is drawing not just pilgrims, but politicians too. The Maha Kumbh Mela in India is seen by political parties as an opportunity for outreach. Prime Minister ...
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Mass Pilgrim Gatherings and Security Measures at Maha Kumbh Mela
Over 2.5 million devotees participated in a holy dip at Triveni Sangam during Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj. With 70 million ...
Maha Kumbh Mela: The staggering numbers behind the largest gathering of humanity on Earth
While the Kumbh Mela festival is ordinarly held every three years, rotating between several holy cities on the banks of these ...
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Kumbh Mela: Significance, Traditions, and Rituals
Kumbh Mela, the grandiose assemblage of pilgrims around four sacred rivers in India, is accredited as the largest gathering of humans in the world. During this religious pilgrimage, millions of ...
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Teen Steve Jobs’s Letter On Zen And Kumbh Mela, Reveals A Contemplative Mind
It concludes with the sign-off, “Shanti, Steve Jobs,” encapsulating his introspective mindset. Interestingly, this year’s ...
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The World’s Largest Human Gathering Begins in India
The religious festival, called the Maha Kumbh Mela, happens every 12 years on the banks of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj. Officials this year expect up to ...
Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 Live Updates: Prayagraj police ban processions, drones, and protests amid security concerns
The Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, the world’s largest religious gathering, has commenced in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, attracting m ...