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

The lost-and-found center at the world’s largest religious gathering attends to the faithful’s earthly needs as they perform ...

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With 15 days left for Maha Kumbh 2025 to conclude, the UP government estimates over 55 crore pilgrims will have visited ...

Many people are feared to have been hurt following a crush at a huge Hindu religious festival in northern India.

Feb. 6, 2025 This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Subramoney Iyer, highlights some of the most compelling images ...

Naked Hindu holy men take dips at Sangam, the confluence of three sacred rivers the Yamuna, the Ganges and the mythical Saraswati, during the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India, Monday, ...

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NASA astronaut Donald Pettit on Sunday shared stunning photographs of Prayagraj lit up for the Maha Kumbh Mela. Photographs ... millions of people in this photo, for an event that has not happened ...

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 ...

The incident is believed to have happened at the Kumbh Mela festival when people who were sleeping by the riverbanks in Prayagraj were trampled by others who had taken a dip in the holy waters.

A “stampede-like situation” at one of the biggest religious festivals in India, the Maha Kumbh Mela, led to multiple casualties on Wednesday, police said. A massive crowd, estimated to be 100 ...