Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit aboard International Space Station (ISS) has shared mesmerizing photos of the Maha Kumbh Mela in ...

Pilgrims searched for their family members after a stampede broke out at the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj, India. Credit... Supported by By The New York Times Photographs by Atul Loke It ...

The incident is believed to have happened at the Kumbh Mela festival when people who were sleeping by the riverbanks in Prayagraj were trampled by others who had taken a dip in the holy waters.

Hindu pilgrims walk along the old Yamuna bridge during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj on Wednesday. (Niharika Kulkarni/AFP/Getty Images) Officials in Prayagraj have set up 150,000 porta ...

Jan 29 (Reuters) - More than seven people were killed in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, in the northern Indian holy city of Prayagraj on Wednesday. Here is a look at ...

Hindu pilgrims arrive to take a dip in Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers, during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj on Wednesday. (Arus Sankar/AFP/Getty ...

Deadly crowd incidents are a frequent occurrence at Indian religious festivals, including the Kumbh Mela, which attracts tens of millions of devotees every 12 years to the northern city of Prayagraj.

Patna: The unprecedented Kumbh Mela rush has created havoc at the Patna Junction with a sudden spike in passengers' footfall of up to 4 lakh per day creating a challenge for the railways.