A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the ...

The world's largest religious gathering, the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, turned deadly Wednesday, with officials ...

Videos from the scene showed victims being rushed to ambulances or lying motionless on the ground after a large crowd broke ...

A video spread online shows an annual stone-pelting ritual in northern India, contrary to claims by social media posts that ...

Eyewitnesses recounted chaotic scenes with hundreds of people climbing over barricades and falling over one another.

A deadly stampede on Wednesday hit India's Kumbh Mela, a vast Hindu festival held by the banks of the Ganges river that 400 ...

More than seven people were killed in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, in the northern Indian ...

The late release of casualty figures at the gathering of millions of people was seen as shielding the political fortunes of a ...

Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India began bathing in sacred waters on Monday as the Kumbh Mela festival opened, with organisers expecting 400 million people -- the largest gathering of humanity.

Transformation with modernisation The true transformation of the Kumbh Mela began in the 20th century, especially post-independence India. While the core religious practices remained the same ...

As uncanny as it may seem, the current slump in the Indian stock market might have a connection to the Kumbh Mela. Historical data reveals that the benchmark Sensex has delivered negative returns ...