A stampede broke out at the ongoing ... are expected to attend this year’s Kumbh Mela festivities, held over 45 days in ...

PRAYAGRAJ: More than seven people were killed and around 10 injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival in north India's Uttar Pradesh state on Wednesday (Jan 29), said ...

Many people took a dip in India’s rivers late last ... They were not shaken by the stampede a day earlier that killed at least 30 people. Kumbh Mela attracts tens of millions of Hindus every ...

According to the newspaper, the government remained silent about the second stampede and its victims amid the earlier tragedy. The Kumbh Mela festival takes place in northern India once every 12 ...

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 ...

Another stampede took place at Allahabad Junction (now Prayagraj Junction) during the 2013 Kumbh Mela in which scores of people died. After the 1954 stampede, an inquiry committee was set up and ...

Prayagraj: A three-member judicial commission probing stampede at Maha Kumbh on Jan 29 arrived in ... "The commission members recorded statements of the Mela police and other department officials.

Minister Nityanand Rai informed Parliament that there is no central data on casualties during the Maha Kumbh Mela stampede in Prayagraj ... to the Constitution of India. Organization of religious ...

This year, even a deadly stampede proved no deterrent to believers ... A week before my visit, pilgrims on their way back from India's Maha Kumbh Mela festival were stuck in a traffic jam for ...

The Kumbh Mela - held every 12 years - is expected to draw some 400 million devotees in 2025, officials estimate. The Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, in comparison, drew 1.8 million people last year.

In his statement lauding the success of the event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi failed to pay homage to the Prayagraj stampede victims ...