Devotees thronged the Har Ki Pauri ghat on Wednesday on the occasion of Magh Purnima to take a dip in the Ganga River and offer prayers. Visuals from Har Ki Pauri showed a large congregation of ...

In a powerful demonstration of cultural and spiritual unity, His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the King of Bhutan, participated in the Maha Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj’s Triveni Sangam on ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela held once in 144 years and this is a festival that has no religious or cultural front barriers, draws ...

The full Kumbh Mela is held every 12 years across four sacred cities, while the Ardh (half) Kumbh Mela takes place midway ...

Naga Sadhus or Naked Hindu holy men take dips at Sangam, the confluence of three sacred rivers the Yamuna, the Ganges and the ...

By Jose Kavi The Catholic bishops of India on January 30 offered prayers and Mass for the victims of a stampede at Maha Kumbh ...

Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...

The first-ever Kumbh Mela held in India after Independence was a landmark ... after crowd went out of control during Kumbh Mela in Haridwar, Uttarakhand in 1986. The stampede broke out on a ...

Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as tens of millions of devotees went to bathe in a river on one of the most sacred ...

INCIDENTS OF STAMPEDES AT KUMBH MELA 1954: The Kumbh Mela of 1954, the first ever Kumbh held after Independence, was a landmark event for India, but it is also remembered ... 1986: The Kumbh Mela in ...

In the process, drops of Amrit fell at four locations: Prayagraj, Haridwar ... Survey of India, this zone delves into the history and cultural significance of the Kumbh Mela.