The Diplomat2d
Why Are Millions of People Flocking to India’s Prayagraj?
This year’s Maha Kumbh Mela is particularly significant. The alignment of stars and planets is said to be the same as when ...
Mahakumbh 2025: Authorities using AI to manage crowd, avoid stampede at world’s biggest gathering
Organisers predict up to 400 million pilgrims will visit the Kumbh Mela, a millennia-old sacred show of Hindu piety and ...
devdiscourse8d
Tragedy Spurs Government Review of Temple Security
The Union Home Ministry is dispatching a senior official to assess security measures following a stampede at the Tirumala ...
Tehelka9d
Tirupati tragedy spotlights India’s chronic crowd mismanagement
It is seen that human stampedes in India mainly often take place in religious pilgrimages, occupational sporting and melodic ...
Domestic12d
How India Plans To Keep 400 Million Pilgrims Safe At Maha Kumbh Mela
The Maha Kumbh Mela kickstarted on January 13 in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, with millions of visitors from across the globe.
The Week13d
Disaster in temples: Tragic stampedes that happened in India
A look at some tragic stampedes that happened during temple festivals in India. Recently, six persons died in a stampeded ...
The Tribune-Democrat13d
India kicks off a massive Hindu festival touted as the world's largest religious gathering
Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj on ...
ThePrint13d
SRIVANI trust & other Jagan decisions continue at Tirupati, talks of ’embarrassment’ in TDP ranks
Last week's Tirupati stampede, which resulted in deaths of six devotees, has revived criticism of decision to extend Vaikunta ...
ThePrint13d
Religion, money & sheer numbers—Maha Kumbh gives global media the quintessential ‘India story‘
International media questions Modi's 'populist facade', saying Indian democracy will face its most important test in small ...