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

Pilgrims searched for their family members after a stampede broke out at the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj, India. Credit... Supported by By The New York Times Photographs by Atul Loke It ...

Kumbh Mela in 2025 is a Maha Kumbh, which is a significant Hindu festival celebrated once every 144 years at Prayagraj (Allahabad). Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images An estimated 50,000 security ...

Maha Kumbh mela was recently captured by an astronaut flying above India aboard the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, aboard the International Space Station, shared images of Prayagraj glowing during the 2025 Maha ...

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At least 30 people have been killed in a crush at the world's largest religious gathering, the Hindu festival Kumbh Mela in northern India, officials say. The incident took place early on Wednesday ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India — (AP ... The most propitious of these days occur in cycles of 12 years during the Maha Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival. The festival is a series of ritual baths by Hindu ...

Reuters and local media reported witnesses seeing several dead bodies near the river bank, and photos ... the Maha Kumbh Mela, or the festival of the Sacred Pitcher, on the banks of Prayagraj.

including the Kumbh Mela, which attracts tens of millions of devotees every 12 years to the northern city of Prayagraj. As pilgrims rushed to participate in a sacred day of ritual bathing ...

At least seven people were killed and around 10 injured in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj on the most auspicious day of the six-week-long festival.