On January 19, a massive fire broke out in the Maha Kumbh Mela area's Sector 19 due to a cylinder blast. While no casualties were reported, the blaze had left over a dozen camps gutted.

In this regard, the District Collector's Office had written a letter to the Nashik Municipal Corporation and directed it to ...

This is the first Maha Kumbh Mela to be held under his party's rule after it changed the town's earlier Muslim name of Allahabad to the Hindu Prayagraj in 2018.

PRAYAGRAJ, (Reuters) – The 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s largest religious gatherings, is being managed with cutting-edge technology to improve safety and crowd control.

Scott is a clinical associate professor of infectious diseases at Stanford University School of Medicine. Over 660 million pilgrims gathered at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India, this past ...

More than 400 people died after they were trampled or drowned at the Kumbh Mela on a single day of the festival in 1954, one of the largest tolls in a crowd-related disaster globally.

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 ...

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers meet, officials said. By Hari Kumar and Anupreeta Das ...

Naga Sadhus or Hindu holy men leave after taking a dip during the first "Shahi Snan" during "Kumbh Mela" or the Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, previously known as Allahabad, India, Jan. 15, 2019.

[1/3]Naga Sadhus, or Hindu holy men, shout religious slogans before taking a dip during the "Maha Kumbh Mela", or the Great Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, India, January 14, 2025.

A one-time Kumbh Mela pilgrim in India finds true cleansing in Christ. At the age of 11, Kumar journeyed 125 miles south from his home of Gonda to Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, to plunge into ...