A three-member commission, including retired high court judge Harsh Kumar, former DGP VK Gupta, and retired IAS officer DK ...

Indian officials downplayed a deadly stampede at the world’s largest religious festival because they wanted to protect the ...

The NDMA, the apex body on formulating disaster mitigation policies in the country, had in 2014 published a report on crowd management at big events and prevention of stampedes. Here are its key ...

For many Hindu pilgrims, bathing at the festival where three holy rivers meet is the spiritual journey of a lifetime. But as millions descended on this northeast Indian tent city, was it a disaster ...

Amidst chaos, reports emerge of yet another fire in Sector 22 of the mela grounds, with 15 tents reportedly reduced to ashes ...

A pre-dawn human stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering has killed at least 30 people in India. Many more were ...

Hindu pilgrim Parvati Gupta braved jostling crowds to be at the world's largest religious festival in India but will leave with injuries that will keep her bedridden for months.

Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday slammed the BJP-led Central and Uttar Pradesh governments for the tragic ...

A stampede in India’s Uttar Pradesh state that killed at least 30 people is “very, very tragic,” says Cardinal Oswald Gracias ...

Swarming throngs of devotees bathed in rivers at the world’s biggest religious gathering in India on today, undeterred by a ...

Hundreds died in a stampede at the first Kumbh Mela in independent India in Allahabad in 1954 – a disaster caused by ...