Due to its rich culture and various religions practiced, India has wide range of festivals and unique regional and cultural audiences. This unique cultural context also provides various ...

a day after a stampede killed at least 30 people and injured 60 others on a riverbank at the Maha Kumbh festival in northern India. The Uttar Pradesh state government ordered a retired judge to ...

At least 30 people have died and another 60 have been injured by a stampede at the massive Maha Kumbh Mela festival in northern India. The crush happened between 1 am and 2 am local time on ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims and tourists to India. The 45-day festival, which began Jan. 13, is the largest gathering of humanity in ...

It has now won the top prize. Marathi filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade's Sabar Bonda has made India proud at the 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival. The film which was the only Indian ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India — The man appears in a silhouette ... is emblematic of the ongoing Maha Kumbh festival, the largest religious congregation on Earth. Here, millions Hindus have been taking ...

The world's largest religious gathering, the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, turned deadly Wednesday, with officials confirming at least 30 deaths and 60 people injured in a stampede on the biggest ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women have gathered in India’s northern city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world’s largest religious gathering.

Prayagraj (India) (AFP) – For millions of Hindu pilgrims at India's millennia-old vast Kumbh Mela festival, the culmination of their journey is ritual bathing in the holy waters where sacred ...

The Kathakaar International Storytellers Festival, India’s only oral storytelling festival, will be held at the historic Gaiety Theatre on Thursday. The festival to be organised in the Gothic ...