Nearly one-third of India's 1.4 billion plus population descended on the Maha Kumbh Mela, a six-week Hindu gathering held in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The number of people attending ...

The Kumbh Mela is the world's largest religious gathering, attracting hundreds of millions of Hindu worshippers. Here's how ...

The Kumbh Mela, celebrated in India, is recognized by UNESCO for its values of inclusivity and cultural heritage. It is the largest peaceful congregation of pilgrims, where millions bathe in sacred ...

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Indians from across the country have gathered at Kumbh Mela, a millennia-old Hindu festival of religious piety and ritual bathing that 400 million pilgrims are expected to attend over its six-week ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela festival has shown that the world is one family. This is the message from South Africa’s High Commissioner to India, Professor Anil Sooklal, who attended the event yesterday ...

A stampede took place early on 29 January during the Kumbh Mela religious festival at India’s Sangam Ghat Prayagraj worship site after barriers broke under the pressure of massive crowds ...

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 ...

Hindu religious leaders have called off their “royal bath” following the stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela this morning. Today is a sacred day during the six-week festival, and authorities were ...

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