The Maha Kumbh 2025 commenced here amid chants of bhajans and slogans. "Till 9.30 am, around 60 lakh pilgrims had taken dip," ...

A stampede-like situation broke out at Sangam in the early hours of Wednesday amid the ongoing Maha Kumbh, as millions of pilgrims turned up for a holy bath ...

One fateful Wednesday night in January, I texted a friend words I never thought I would say: “I just decided to go to Maha Kumbh. I’m leaving tomorrow.” As a chronically overworked PhD student, my ...

The lost-and-found center at the world’s largest religious gathering attends to the faithful’s earthly needs as they perform rituals intended to purify the soul. Pilgrims showing photographs of their ...

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 ...

A one-time Kumbh Mela pilgrim in India finds true cleansing in Christ. At the age of 11, Kumar journeyed 125 miles south from his home of Gonda to Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, to plunge into the ...

Stargazers are in for a treat as seven planets of the solar system - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and ...

In the Kumbh Mela stampede on January 29, 2025, the state government had confirmed 37 deaths, promising an ex gratia sum of Rs 25 lakh to the kin of each deceased. A three-member judicial inquiry ...