Hindu devotees and mystics have gathered in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, which is the ...

Probe ordered after 30 deaths at world’s largest religious festival in India - Indian authorities have released an official statement on the death toll but it is expected to rise ...

Pilgrims taking a holy bath and praying late last month at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India. The Maha Kumbh ... a glorious Hindu cultural and religious past. Mr. Modi “is someone who ...

At least 30 people were killed and many more injured in a stampede at the world's largest religious gathering early Wednesday ...

AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia PRAYAGRAJ, India — Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across ... touted as the world’s largest religious gathering.

The world's largest religious festival, the Maha Kumbh Mela in India, has seen at least 15 people killed as millions throng at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers ...

More than 100 people were killed in a stampede in northern India in July 2024 following a Hindu religious gathering ... that killed 115 people, mostly women and children, on Oct. 13, 2013.

Tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at the massive ... In July at least 116 people died, most of them women and children, when thousands at a religious gathering in ...

Prayagraj, India ... the Hindu religious calendar. Wednesday marks one of the holiest days in the festival, when saffron-clad holy men lead millions in a sin-cleansing ritual of bathing ...

The long-standing demand for a separate Amrit Snan (royal bath) for women saints at the Maha Kumbh has taken a legal turn, with Pari Akhara filing a petition in the Allahabad High Court. The petition ...