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. Latest U.S.

The 2025 Prayag Kumbh Mela also referred to as the 2025 Maha Kumbh takes place from 13 January to 26 February 2025, at the Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Rescue personnel carry a victim of a stampede amid the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj, India, Jan. 29, 2025. / Credit: ARUN SANKAR/AFP/Getty.

The Uttar Pradesh government says 37 people were killed in the Kumbh Mela crush, but the BBC has verified at least 82 deaths. News. ... Thirty killed in crowd crush at India's Kumbh Mela festival.

LONDON -- Elephants, horses and an expected crowd of more than 120 million people began to descend on Prayagraj, India, Tuesday, marking the beginning of Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims and tourists to India. The 45-day festival, which began Jan. 13, is the largest gathering of humanity in ...

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 ...

A monthslong Hindu festival -- the Kumbh Mela -- takes place once every three years rotating between four places in India. This year it is being held in the western Indian city of Nashik in the ...

Digambar Ramesh Giri, a Naga Sadhu or Hindu holy man gestures as he sits in his tent near river Ganges, ahead of the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj on December 18, 2024. Beside India's holy ...

NEW DELHI — Large crowds turned out in northern India on Wednesday for the last day of the six-week Maha Kumbh Mela that drew a total of 663 million people seeking absolution of their sins by ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India – At least 30 people were killed and dozens more were injured early Wednesday after millions of Hindu pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, a huge festival in the Indian city of ...

[1/11] Devotees take a dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers with the mythical invisible Saraswati river, to mark Maghi Purnima, one of the auspicious days during the "Maha ...