The 55-day event attracted almost 12 crore devotees, with an estimated 3 crore arriving in Prayagraj on the auspicious Mauni ...
"My uncle had saved his sister by pulling her out of the river waters by her hair as she slipped below amid the commotion," ...
The Kumbh Mela is the world's largest religious gathering, attracting hundreds of millions of Hindu worshippers. Here's how India prepared—and what happens once it's all over.
Millions of pilgrims from across India, tons of food and beverages, traffic jams, barricades, surge pricing, and spirituality ...
Every twelve years, tens of millions of men, women and children gather on the flood plain of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in Allahabad, India, for the Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of humanity ...
The Maha Kumbh rotates among the four sites based on astrological alignments of the Sun, Moon, and Jupiter. Prayagraj, at the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati rivers, is ...
The event also saw a remarkable one-day attendance of 30 million on February 10, 2013 ... will be known as "Maha Kumbh Mela" ("Great Kumbh Mela"). Answer: Haridwar, Allahabad, Nashik, and Ujjain.
This is the third stampede recorded during the Maha Kumbh 2025, and several concerns ... New Delhi Railway Station is a flashback to the 2013 Allahabad Railway Station disaster.
On February 18, 1911, French pilot Henri Pequet carried 6,500 mails in the world's first official airmail flight over Allahabad, coinciding with the Kumbh Mela. IMAGE: Devotees take a dip in the ...
Vehicle entry is prohibited in the Kumbh Mela premises and Prayagraj city from this evening due to the large gathering expected for Mahashivratri. Essential service vehicles are exempted from ...