NASA astronaut Don Pettit aboard International Space Station (ISS) has shared mesmerizing photos of the Maha Kumbh Mela in ...

Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...

Photographs from the Maha Kumbh Mela showed bodies amid belongings strewn across the ground and crowds of terrified devotees, some trying to climb over fences and under barricades, after a deadly ...

At least 30 people died and 60 others were injured in a pre-dawn stampede at Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj yesterday.

The incident is believed to have happened at the Kumbh Mela festival when people who were sleeping by the riverbanks in Prayagraj were trampled by others who had taken a dip in the holy waters.

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Pilgrims searched for their family members after a stampede broke out at the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj, India. Credit... Supported by By The New York Times Photographs by Atul Loke It ...

Deadly crowd incidents are a frequent occurrence at Indian religious festivals, including the Kumbh Mela, which attracts tens of millions of devotees every 12 years to the northern city of Prayagraj.

Undeterred by the previous day's stampede, nearly 2 crore devotees bathed at the Maha Kumbh at Sangam on Thursday. The Mela ...

Kumbh Mela in 2025 is a Maha Kumbh, which is a significant Hindu festival celebrated once every 144 years at Prayagraj (Allahabad). Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images An estimated 50,000 security ...

A “stampede-like situation” at one of the biggest religious festivals in India, the Maha Kumbh Mela, led to multiple casualties on Wednesday, police said. A massive crowd, estimated to be 100 ...