PRAYAGRAI, India (AP) — Channi Anand is based in Jammu, a strategic location not far from the India-Pakistan border that ...

The world's largest religious gathering, the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, turned deadly Wednesday, with officials ...

Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...

Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as tens of ...

A “stampede-like situation” at one of the biggest religious festivals in India ... occurs every three years, rotating among four locations – Haridwar in northern Uttarakhand state, Ujjain ...

At least 30 people have died and 60 have been injured in a stampede at a Hindu festival in northern India. Images from the scene in the city of Prayagraj, in Uttar Pradesh state, show bodies being ...

A pre-dawn stampede at the world's largest religious gathering killed at least 15 people in India ... festival celebrated once every 144 years at Prayagraj (Allahabad). Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women have gathered in India’s ... gathering. The festival — site of a stampede on Wednesday — is held every 12 years at the ...

The festival is scheduled to continue until Feb. 26. Kumbh Mela is considered the "festival of festivals" in the Hindu religious calendar in India, since it takes place every 12 years. Earlier ...

He also said he is “constantly in touch” with the Uttar Pradesh state ... images shared by Reuters showed. Security measures scaled up ahead of festival Crowd crushes at religious gatherings ...

Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of the Uttar Pradesh state, also urged people to ... The Maha Kumbh festival, held every 12 years, started on Jan. 13 and is the world’s largest religious gathering.