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The 'Netra Kumbh' hosted at Sector 6 of the mela area ended a day after the culmination of the Maha Kumbh, with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visiting it hours before its closure.
The Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 at Prayagraj is attracting millions of devotees and tourists alike, and providing accommodation for them has been one of the key priorities for the Uttar Pradesh ...
Over the last 45 days, more than 620 million people – over a third of India’s roughly 1.4 billion population - have attended the Maha Kumbh Mela, or the festival of the Sacred Pitcher, on the ...
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.
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.
The Maha Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival in India that is drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims, is a powerful marketing tool for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies.
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 ...
The Maha Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest spiritual gathering, ended on Wednesday. Over six weeks, more than 400 million people visited the Indian city of Prayagraj to bathe at the confluence of ...
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 ...
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.