The largest mela in the country for centuries, the Kumbh Mela, was a bigger phenomenon this year than ever before. Excitable television channels, smart tour operators, the thriving selfie culture ...

The Prayag Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, underway in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu pilgrimage festival is perceived as a symbol of preserving cultural and religious traditions, by at least 74% of ...

Prayagraj, once the stunning epicentre that hosted the grand Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world, is now in the process of returning to normalcy after a record ...

Barely five feet tall with long, gray- streaked plaits and fingers gnarled from decades grinding masa on her century-old metate, doña Mela, as everyone in Cherán calls Sebastián, moves through ...

The Mahakumbh Mela 2025 is aiming to set multiple Guinness World Records with their four initiatives including 15,000 sanitation workers, 300 people cleaning water stream, 1,000 e-rickshaws ...

Every week, Imelda Campos Sebastián walks a mile from her pine cabin on the rocky northern slope of the Cerro San Marcos and down into the center of Cherán, an Indigenous Purhépecha community ...

stampedes at the Kumbh Mela are not accidents but predictable failures, resulting from infrastructural limitations, governance inertia, and a tendency to normalise disaster. Integrating ...

Kumbh Mela has overwhelmed Bihar's railway system with millions of pilgrims causing widespread chaos and vandalism. Packed trains, long delays, and damaged coaches have led to violent clashes.

Amish Tripathi, renowned author and spiritual thinker, recently extended an invitation to tech magnate Elon Musk to attend this year's Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. In an exclusive ...

As traffic restrictions have been eased, the grounds near the mela ghats now also have become a meeting point of cars and other vehicles from different states as many people are driving straight ...

The chief minister of India's Uttar Pradesh state has rejected a government report that found high levels of contamination in a key bathing place at the Kumbh Mela, the world's largest gathering.