The largest mela in the country for centuries, the Kumbh Mela, was a bigger phenomenon this year than ever before. Excitable television channels, smart tour operators, the thriving selfie culture ...

Riding pillion through narrow medieval streets on a grimy Tata motorbike, we crested a low hill to suddenly encounter the world’s largest-ever gathering of humans: the 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest spiritual gathering, ended on Wednesday. Over six weeks, more than 400 million people visited the Indian city of Prayagraj to bathe at the confluence of ...

THE country’s Kumbh Mela festival has wrapped up, with final ritual river bathing ceremonies ending six weeks of celebration that organi­sers say have been attended by hundreds of millions of ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, ended on February 26 with over 66 crore devotees taking holy dip at Triveni Sangam, as per the UP government. The grand Maha Kumbh 2025 in Uttar ...

stampedes at the Kumbh Mela are not accidents but predictable failures, resulting from infrastructural limitations, governance inertia, and a tendency to normalise disaster. Integrating ...

"Legal action is being taken by registering (a first information report) by Kumbh Mela Police against various social media accounts spreading rumours by falsely claiming the 2024 video related to ...