Kumbh Mela 2025 isn’t just about sacred dips and spiritual gatherings—it’s also a celestial event powered by rare planetary ...

Prayagraj, India — A pre-dawn stampede at the world's largest religious gathering killed at least 30 people in India on Wednesday, with many more injured after a surging crowd spilled out of a police ...

The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a judicial probe into the deaths of at least 30 people in stampedes at India’s Kumbh Mela festival, where millions of Hindu devotees gathered for a ritual bath ...

The lost-and-found center at the world’s largest religious gathering attends to the faithful’s earthly needs as they perform rituals intended to purify the soul. Pilgrims showing photographs of their ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. As many as 400 million people could attend the six-week festival in the northern Indian city of ...

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 the ...

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 the ...

Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of Hindu pilgrims, is a celebration of the successful revolution of Brihaspati (Jupiter). One gets to witness devotion at the largest scale here as people of all age ...

More than 400 million people expected at Maha Kumbh Mela Hindu sacred event will be world's largest gathering of humanity Hindus believe taking dip in sacred river during kumbh brings salvation ...

One fateful Wednesday night in January, I texted a friend words I never thought I would say: “I just decided to go to Maha Kumbh. I’m leaving tomorrow.” As a chronically overworked PhD student, my ...

According to tradition that reaches back to the foundations of Hinduism, a ritual dip in the Ganges during Kumbh Mela holds the promise of washing away one’s sins. People from all walks of life in ...