Over 660 million pilgrims gathered at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India, this past February, and I'm now seeing the ...

People from all walks of life in India are now gathering for the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, on the banks of the Ganges River where it meets and mixes with the water of the Yamuna and ...

Kumbh Mela stampede latest: Probe ordered after 30 deaths at world’s largest religious festival in India - Indian authorities have released an official statement on the death toll but it is ...

Rescue personnel carry a victim of a stampede amid the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj, India, Jan. 29, 2025. ARUN SANKAR/AFP/Getty ...

Hindus perform a religious ritual on the banks of Ganges River during the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar, India, on March 12. Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images.

From now until March, up to 120 million pilgrims are expected to head for Prayagraj in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state for the Kumbh Mela, considered the world’s largest gathering of ...

In Uttarakhand, the state where the festival took place, infections spiked. At the start of April, when the Kumbh Mela began, the state was reporting 500 new cases a day.

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.

PRAYAGRAJ, India, Jan 12 (Reuters) - A six-week Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival begins in India on Monday, a Hindu sacred event that will be the world's largest gathering of humanity as ...

During the last Maha Kumbh Mela, in 2013, at least three dozen people died when a bridge in a train station collapsed. Hundreds of people died in a stampede during independent India’s first ...

Can India’s Kumbh Mela–a religious pilgrimage that at its peak is expected to attract around 30 million people to the western city of Nashik this year–provide ideas for Prime Minister ...