India, Kumbh Mela and Modi

Taken together with the 69 fatalities recorded at the Motilal Nehru Medical College, the death toll from the Maha Kumbh ...
A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the ...
India's government reported that over 420 million pilgrims bathed at the Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj. The number is ...
Many were feared dead after millions of Hindu pilgrims at a huge Hindu festival in India rushed to bathe in holy river waters ...
More than 100 people were killed in a stampede in northern India in July 2024 following a Hindu religious gathering, making ...
Accidents such as the deadly stampede at the Kumbh Mela festival in January 2025 are a notorious feature of Indian religious ...
BJP MP Hema Malini has drawn criticism for downplaying the tragic Kumbh Mela stampede, which claimed 30 lives and left 60 ...
Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...
This comes barely a week after a pre-dawn stampede at the mela, in which 30 were killed and several others injured, according to authorities.