The ashes of more than 400 cremated Hindus laid in earthen urns at Sonpuri Crematorium, near Old Golimar, and at different ...

A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. But at the festival, where ...

The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a judicial probe into the deaths of at least 30 people in stampedes at India ’s Kumbh Mela festival, where millions of Hindu devotees gathered for a ritual ...

From lazy strolls through ancient alleys to sacred rituals along the Ganges, Varanasi in winter promises memories of a ...

Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India yesterday as tens of millions of Hindus gathered to take a dip in sacred river waters on the most ...

Authorities had expected a record 100 million people to visit Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh, or "festival of the Sacred ...

The image claiming to show Jawaharlal Nehru taking a holy dip at the Kumbh Mela in 1954 is incorrect. The photo is from 1938, ...

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers meet, officials said.

Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as tens of ...

More than 100 people were killed in a stampede in northern India in July 2024 following a Hindu religious gathering, making ...

At least 40 people were killed, and hundreds more injured, in the early hours of Wednesday when a stampede broke out at Maha Kumbh, the world's largest religious festival that every 12 years attracts ...

Officials have just announced that 30 people were killed and 60 were injured during the crush at Kumbh Mela festival. Of ...