Official figures suggest that over 400 million people have visited the Maha Kumbh Mela taking place in India. The Hindu event is the world’s largest religious festival.

Bollywood actress Esha Gupta visited the ongoing Mahakumbh Mela on February 6 2025 and took a holy dip at the Triveni Sangam ...

Police say at least 30 people were killed and many more injured in a stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering as ...

Between 90 to 100 million pilgrims had congregated to take ritual baths in sacred rivers at a festival in northern India.

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

The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. The photo of a Naga Sadhu — a Hindu ascetic — at the confluence ...

the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers, on Mauni Amavasya' or new moon day during the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, Wednesay ...

At least 30 people were killed and dozens more were injured early Wednesday after millions of Hindu pilgrims at the Maha ...

It was not immediately clear what triggered the panic at the festival where devotees from across India had congregated to ...

Participants crowd the banks at the confluence of three rivers, the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, for a once-in-12-year Hindu festival, Maha Kumbh ...

Millions continued to throng the site even as police urged them to avoid the area. Deadly stampedes are relatively common ...

Newsweek has reached out to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Office for comment via email. Hindu devotees take a holy dip by the banks of the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and ...