MUMBAI: At every Kumbh Mela, thousands of people become separated from their families in the vast crowds. In 2013, around ...

Probe ordered after 30 deaths at world’s largest religious festival in India - Indian authorities have released an official ...

A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the ...

Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...

Taken together with the 69 fatalities recorded at the Motilal Nehru Medical College, the death toll from the Maha Kumbh ...

Vi has introduced a new initiative, ‘Vi Number Rakshak,’ at the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 in Prayagraj to address the ...

The deadly stampede at the Mahakumbh Mela 2025 highlights the ongoing challenges of crowd management during large religious ...

A deadly stampede at Triveni Sangam ghat during Mahakumbh 2025 resulted in at least fifteen deaths as devotees gathered for ...

It's not an unusual occurrence for large religious gatherings to end in deaths in India. The last major Maha Kumbh Mela in 2013 saw 42 people killed after they arrived at the main train station, also ...

The Kumbh Mela is rooted in a mythological Hindu battle ... Another 36 people were crushed to death in 2013, the last time the festival was staged in Prayagraj.

A tragic stampede occurred during the Mahakumbh Mela 2025 at the Sangam Ghat in Prayagraj on Mauni Amavasya, resulting in at least 10 fatalities and many injuries.

Some 30 million had gathered on the busiest day of the Kumbh Mela 12 years back. The 2013 stampede prompted state minister Azam Khan to resign as the Mela organising committee chief. Khan ...