A half ("Ard") Kumbh is held mid-way between two full Kumbhs. Officials say the 2025 festival is a Maha (Great) Kumbh Mela, which occurs only every 144 years, making it an even more significant event.

Maha Kumbh mela authorities in Prayagraj will attempt four Guinness World Records, starting with 15,000 sanitation workers cleaning the ghats. Other record attempts include river cleaning ...

Kumbh Mela 2025 (AP) A “stampede-like situation” at one of the biggest religious festivals in India, the Maha Kumbh Mela, led to multiple casualties on Wednesday, police said.

Heavy traffic jam on a road on the eve of Maha Shivratri festival during the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, in Prayagraj, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. PTI photo The roads of Allahabad city got clogged again ...

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 ...

The 2023 Prayagraj Kumbh Mela is becoming a 'Digital Maha Kumbh' with a new portal for instant land and facility allocation. This includes GIS-based maps, drone surveys for high accuracy, and ...

The Aftermath of the Maha Kumbh Mela Stampede In Photos Pilgrims searched for their family members after a stampede broke out at the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj, India.

Every 12 years the festival carries the prefix “Maha,” which means great, as it’s the largest gathering of the Kumbh Mela that’s held every three years in one of four cities.

Tens of thousands of people immersed themselves in freezing waters at the confluence of sacred rivers as the six-week Maha Kumbh Mela festival began in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on ...

Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest religious congregation.

A six-week Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival begins in India on Monday, a Hindu sacred event that will be the world's largest gathering of humanity as it showcases religion, spirituality ...