Every 12 years the festival carries the prefix “Maha,” which means great, as it’s the largest gathering of the Kumbh Mela that’s held every three years in one of four cities.

Let us tell you that the fourth royal bath in Kumbh has already taken place on February 2, so the next royal bath is going to take place in Kumbh tomorrow i.e. on February 12 on Magh Purnima.

Kumbh Mela stampede latest: 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 ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival in India that is drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims, is a powerful marketing tool for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies.

Item 1 of 7 Devotees walk from a pontoon bridge after a deadly stampede before the second "Shahi Snan" (grand bath), at the "Kumbh Mela" or the Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, previously known as ...

Item 1 of 5 A devotee takes a holy dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers with the mythical, invisible Saraswati river, during the "Maha Kumbh Mela", or the Great Pitcher ...

The lost-and-found center is part of a huge temporary infrastructure for the Kumbh Mela. Image Sushil Kumar, a police constable, making a call to a relative of a lost pilgrim.

A smaller version of the festival, called Ardh Kumbh, or Half Kumbh, was organized in 2019, when 240 million visitors were recorded, with about 50 million taking a ritual bath on the busiest day.

People from all walks of life in India are now gathering for the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, on the banks of the Ganges River where it meets and mixes with the water of the Yamuna and ...

A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the northern city of Prayagraj. Latest U.S.

Digambar Ramesh Giri, a Naga Sadhu or Hindu holy man gestures as he sits in his tent near river Ganges, ahead of the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj on December 18, 2024. Beside India's holy ...

A devotee is seen shocked after a deadly stampede before the royal bath at the Kumbh Mela (REUTERS) Devotees are trapped in a crowd at the . A look back at deadly crowd disasters in India.