The Mahakumbh Mela, like other mass religious events, is structured around sacred temporality, where millions of pilgrims ...

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

A video spread online shows an annual stone-pelting ritual in northern India, contrary to claims by social media posts that ...

The tragedy occurred on Jan. 29 between 1am and 2am as throngs of devotees broke through barricades in an attempt to get to a triangular land mass known as the Sangam Nose, which is sandwiched between ...

More than 400 people died after they were trampled or drowned at the Kumbh Mela on a single day of the festival in 1954, one ...

A pre-dawn stampede at the world's largest religious gathering killed at least 30 people in India on Wednesday, with many ...

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

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

The first-ever Kumbh Mela held in India after Independence was ... lives during the Mahakumbh Mela organised in Prayagraj in 2013. The stampede occured at the train station in the city and killed ...

Videos from the scene showed victims being rushed to ambulances or lying motionless on the ground after a large crowd broke ...

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and ...

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 ...