Although the mela is held every 12 years across Ujjain, Haridwar, Nashik, and Prayagraj, this year it was designated a ‘Maha Kumbh’. Scholars and believers say a rare planetary alignment made ...

Prayagraj: The Maha Kumbh Mela authority has ... the fact that they had been provided all the facilities in 2024 Magh Mela and had won applauses for their work too..

Actor Abhishek Banerjee reflects on what it was like to shoot the film Maha Sangam in the middle of large crowds at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj ... too crowded around Magh Purnima, it was ...

"We did not allow the incident to be excessively highlighted as eight crore devotees and sadhus were present in Prayagraj and the Kumbh Mela area at the time and panic could have worsened the ...

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 ...

Another stampede took place at Allahabad Junction (now Prayagraj Junction) during the 2013 Kumbh Mela in which scores of people died. After the 1954 stampede, an inquiry committee was set up and it ...

As the grand Maha Kumbh Mela comes to an end, the residents of Prayagraj have a sense of emptiness and nostalgia. For 45 days, the city that hosted millions of devotees from across the world has ...

Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati Maharaj on Wednesday criticized the ongoing Maha Kumbh, stating that the real event had already concluded with the full moon of the Magh ...

Shankaracharya emphasized that the real Kumbh concludes in Magh month when all 'Kalpavasi' leave after the full moon. He questioned the authenticity of the government-organized event, juxtaposing it ...

Given the scale of the event and the sheer volume of attendees, authorities have enforced a "no vehicle zone" in the Mela area and Prayagraj besides implementing strict crowd control measures and ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest spiritual gathering, ended on Wednesday. Over six weeks, more than 400 million people visited the Indian city of Prayagraj to bathe at the confluence of ...

From politicians to celebrities, thousands travelled to Prayagraj for a holy dip at Triveni Sangam ... the AI models used to assess crowd density were trained on video footage from Magh Mela 2024 to ...