Indian officials downplayed a deadly stampede at the world’s largest religious festival because they wanted to protect the ...
In 2010, the Love Parade music festival turned into a deadly disaster when a massive stampede killed 21 people and injured ...
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 ...
Train and bus stations saw a surge in crowds as people continued to arrive for the festival, although some devotees remained ...
A pre-dawn human stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering has killed at least 30 people in India. Many more were ...
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 ...