A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the ...
More than seven people were killed in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, in the northern Indian ...
At least 30 people were killed and over 30 have been injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world's biggest ...
Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...
Millions of devout Hindus thronged the northern Indian city of Prayagraj on Thursday (Jan 30) for the Maha Kumbh festival, a ...
About 400 million visitors are expected in Prayagraj for the six-week festival, which began on Jan 13. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Accidents such as the deadly stampede at the Kumbh Mela festival in January 2025 are a notorious feature of Indian religious ...
A large fire broke out at a Hindu religious festival, the Maha Kumbh Mela, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -At least seven people were killed and around 10 injured in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in ...
A deadly stampede on Wednesday hit India's Kumbh Mela, a vast Hindu festival held by the banks of the Ganges river that 400 ...
More than nine million people took a "holy dip" at the confluence of three sacred rivers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Australians are among the hundreds of millions flocking to North India for one of the largest gatherings on earth. What makes ...