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

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

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

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

India’s government said on Friday that more than 420 million pilgrims have ritually bathed at the world’s largest religious ...

Authorities had expected a record 100 million people to visit Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh, or "festival of the Sacred ...

Several opposition leaders criticized the federal and the state government, both led by Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party, and blamed the stampede on “mismanagement” and “VIP ...

It is heartbreaking to witness such a calamity during a sacred event that draws millions in devotion,” Cardinal Filipe Neri ...

STORY: An Indian official says multiple people were killed and several more injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took holy dips in sacred river waters in the northern city of Prayagraj on Wednesday as ...

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