Hundreds died in a stampede at the first Kumbh Mela in independent India in Allahabad in 1954 – a disaster caused by ...

Allahabad and the making of a modern Kumbh Mela There is a widely held belief that the Kumbh Mela is an ancient religious gathering, or rather it is ageless. Historian Kama Maclean, who is a leading ...

The Supreme Court refused to hear a PIL for guidelines over safety of devotees and asked the petitioner to move the Allahabad ...

The Promise of the Kumbh Mela According to a tradition that reaches back to the foundations of Hinduism, a ritual dip in the ...

The image claiming to show Jawaharlal Nehru taking a holy dip at the Kumbh Mela in 1954 is incorrect. The photo is from 1938, ...

Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, attended the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj. Her departure from ...

Judge Shekhar Yadav of the Allahabad High Court, whose remarks at a VHP gathering in December sparked a scandal, has chosen not to attend a seminar on the Ram temple movement in the Kumbh Mela ...

Allahabad High Court judge Justice Shekhar Yadav, whose speech at a VHP event in December kicked up a controversy, has opted out of a seminar on the Ram temple movement in the Kumbh Mela area on ...

The event is deeply rooted in Hindu mythology and centres on the belief in the purifying power of sacred rivers. Pilgrims ...

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A tragic stampede occurred during the Mahakumbh Mela 2025 at the Sangam Ghat in Prayagraj on Mauni Amavasya, resulting in at ...