Every twelve years, tens of millions of men, women and children gather on the flood plain of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in Allahabad, India, for the Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of humanity ...

The Kumbh Mela takes place at five sites total across India at six- and 12-year intervals ... Originally, the city was named ...

Hindu devotees from across India flocked ... This is the first Maha Kumbh Mela to be held under his party's rule after it changed the town's earlier Muslim name of Allahabad to the Hindu Prayagraj ...

From the spiritual grandeur of Kumbh Mela in India to the lively water fights of Songkran in Thailand, these festivals have ...

Besides the not-so-hidden unease between Modi and Adityanath, Modi chose to address the Lok Sabha to ensure that he could personally claim all the kudos, observes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.

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 ...

Maha Kumbh, a dedicated cyber security team successfully thwarted over 6 million malicious attacks originating from more than ...

The Kumbh Mela, the world's largest religious gathering, is a six-week long event being hosted in India's Prayagraj city. The BBC filmed through the night at the Mela to answer one question - does ...

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.

He signs off saying: “The Kumbh Mela is so unique to India, and so is Fevicol, and we continue to be inspired by the culture of India to do something which is uniquely Indian.” ...

This year, the Kumbh Mela began on January 13 and will end on February 26. It is expected to bring together more than 450 million people across 45 days in Prayagraj in northern India. Here are ...