Prayagraj (UP), Dec 4 (IANS) The Yogi Adityanath government has decided that no recreational events or economic activities will be allowed at the annual Magh Mela at the beginning of 2021 in view ...

Prayagraj: Ahead of the upcoming Maha Kumbh Mela, the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government in a landmark decision has declared the Maha Kumbh area in Prayagraj as a new district. The ...

The first Kumbh Mela of independent India took place in 1954 during which a stampede had taken place on the day of the Mauni Amavasya snan on February 3, claiming lives of several hundreds of people.

A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the northern city of Prayagraj.

Tens of thousands of devout Hindus, led by heads of monasteries and ash-smeared ascetics, took a holy dip into the frigid waters of the Ganges River in northern India on Friday despite rising ...

How big is the festival? The scale of the Maha Kumbh Mela is astonishing. The last one, in 2013, drew 120 million people in Prayagraj, according to a government estimate.

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.

Udupi: The 23-year-old Prajwal Shenoy, who took his father to Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh Mela on his 25-year-old Hero Honda Splendor motorcycle, was offered a Centennial Collectors-Edition bike ...

The Kumbh Mela takes place every three years, rotating between the four holy cities of Haridwar, Ujjain, Nashik, and Prayagraj. Each city thus holds the festival once every 12 years.