At least 17 people were killed and many more injured in a stampede at India's Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest religious gathering, a doctor at a government hospital said, as tens of thousands ...

Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at dawn ... when we went for bathing," he told me after his dip. "It was very crowded and people were very indisciplined.

Ritual bathing continues at various sites along the Ganges and Yamuna rivers ... They added that nearly 200 million people have bathed in the river since the beginning of the festival on 13 ...

For the Kumbh Mela, there is also the fact of tens of millions of people at a time bathing in the same stretch of the Ganges River. People will be wading in with faith that nothing bad can happen to ...

It was not immediately clear what triggered the panic or how many people had been hurt. Some local news websites said 10 ...

The History Lecture Series hosted their second installment of “River Histories” on Jan. 29 with a lecture presented by ...

He had been sleeping on the river banks with his family when police began pushing people out. Singh’s mother ... saying that the day’s significance lay in bathing anywhere along the Ganges. Adityanath ...

A deadly stampede on Wednesday hit India's Kumbh Mela, a vast Hindu festival held by the banks of the Ganges river that 400 ...

NEW DELHI — As millions of Indians flock to the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, one needs to look at how the Ganga and Yamuna rivers are doing. Can the river ecosystem take the shock of about 40 ...

Devotees believe bathing there cleanses ... the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati river As we've been reporting, at least 30 people have been killed in a crush at the Kumbh Mela ...