However, spiritual leaders in India used the festival to champion environmental sustainability.Nearly one-third of India's ...

Crowds had swelled because trains carrying Hindu pilgrims to the Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious festival, had been ...

BENGALURU: Presently all roads are leading to Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh Mela till February 26, and soon this may be the case for the Triveni Sangam in Karnataka, popularly known as the Kumbh of ...

New Delhi, Feb 5 (EFE).- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday attended the Hindu festival Kumbh Mela held in the northern part of the country on Wednesday, a week a stampede left 30 ...

As many as 400 million Hindu pilgrims are expected to visit Prayagraj, India, during this year’s 45-day Maha Kumbh Mela festival. Held every 12 years at one of four places in India, the Kumbh Mela is ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj on Wednesday and at around 11 am, he will take a holy dip at the Sangam, his office said. Maha Kumbh 2025, which commenced on ...

Religious scholar Dr Amitabh Gour said, "People across the world are aware of Ardha Kumbh and Purna Kumbh, which take place every 6 and 12 years, respectively. But the Maha Kumbh Mela is a rare ...

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 ...

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 ... wailing next to the bodies of her mother and ...

IMAGE: Devotees walk from a pontoon bridge after a deadly stampede before the second 'Shahi Snan' at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, January 29, 2025. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters Led by ...

Dozens of people were killed in a predawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India on Wednesday, police sources and a Reuters witness said, as tens of millions gathered to take a dip in ...