[AF] At least 18 people died during a stampede ... milestone on the Hindu religious calendar, and officials said around 500 million devotees have already visited the festival since it began ...

It was January, and I was headed 80 miles west to the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, a Hindu religious festival in which ... that year there was a terrible stampede in which hundreds died.

In Kurigram's Chilmari upazila, an estimated 3 lakh devotees gathered on the Brahmaputra shoals to celebrate tradition that has been going on for over 300 years. The event, which attracts devotees ...

The stampede comes just days before the start of the Kumbh Mela, a six-week Hindu festival of prayer and sacred bathing, which is anticipated to be the largest religious gathering in history.

Besides the not-so-hidden unease between Modi and Adityanath, Modi chose to address the Lok Sabha to ensure that he could personally claim all the kudos, observes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.

On being asked about stampede deaths that took place during ... said that a Muslim family would feel safe among a hundred Hindu families. He, however, questioned the possibility of 50 Hindu ...

The stampede happened when pilgrims ... whose ruling party boasts of promoting Hindu cultural symbols. The Maha Kumbh festival has had stampedes in the past. In 2013, at least 40 pilgrims who ...

Even the horrible stampede at New Delhi Railway Station ... now really felt like an intellectual jam of Hindu thought and philosophy. It actually reminded me of literature festivals. At lit fests, ...

Akshaya Tritiya, also known as Akha Teej, is a highly auspicious Hindu festival celebrated on the third day of Shukla Paksha in Vaisakha, promising endless wealth. Celebrated on April 30 ...