A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. At the Maha Kumbh festival, ...

What is the Maha Kumbh Mela and why does it attract millions of Hindus? - Officials had been preparing for months for the ...

Witnesses described a mass of people rushing to take a pre-dawn dip at the confluence of the three sacred rivers.

Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, joined by Senior Assistant Editor Soumya Pillai, discusses factors contributing to Yamuna’s ...

Tens of thousands of people at a massive religious gathering in India rushed to take a holy bath in the country's northern ...

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and ...

Police say at least 30 people were killed and many more injured in a stampede at the world's largest religious gathering as ...

Hours after a massive rush of Hindu pilgrims set off a stampede at the Maha Kumbh festival in northern India early Wednesday, ...

At least 30 people have been killed and dozens more injured in crowd crushes at the Maha Kumbh Mela in India, where millions ...

A tentative sense of calm prevails over a slum cluster in Yamuna Khadar on the floodplains in north-east Delhi’s Shastri Park. The area residents anticipate a demolition drive soon after the ...