A video spread online shows an annual stone-pelting ritual in northern India, contrary to claims by social media posts that ...

At least 30 people died in the crush at the Kumbh Mela on Wednesday, which was one of the holiest days of the six-week long ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival in India that is drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims, is a powerful marketing tool for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies.

Taken together with the 69 fatalities recorded at the Motilal Nehru Medical College, the death toll from the Maha Kumbh ...

India’s Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a ritual river dip today at the world’s largest religious ...

India's Kumbh Mela festival attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful to Prayagraj in northern Uttar Pradesh state, but ...

The significance and scale of the Maha Kumbh festival is not easy to grasp. From a distance, it is a massive, huge, gigantic ...

Celebrities from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin to US actress Dakota Johnson have reportedly joined millions of pilgrims at India's Kumbh Mela mega-festival, but a video shared online apparently ...

Indian officials downplayed a deadly stampede at the world’s largest religious festival because they wanted to protect the ...

A deadly stampede at a Hindu festival in India is causing many to wonder how to effectively manage massive events.

A Catholic-run hospital and a college in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have offered free meals to Hindu devotees ...