Due to the massive crowd surge in Varanasi from the Prayagraj Maha Kumbh, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth postponed all semester exams until February 15. The university, with 228 affiliated ...

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With A-listers abound and parties consummating each day’s screening, consider this your visual guide to the 41st annual Sundance Film Festival. Ahead, see all the best photos from this year’s ...

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Police did not respond, they said, and soon people squeezed in the massive crowd began fainting, creating panic at the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in the northern city of Prayagraj. "People were ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered his condolences to the families of victims of a crowd surge at the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Uttar Pradesh. Many are said to be injured ...

A crowd broke through barriers and crushed people sleeping on the river banks near the meeting point of the two rivers, officials in Uttar Pradesh state said.

More than 400 people died after they were trampled or drowned at the Kumbh Mela on a single day of the festival in 1954, one of the largest tolls in a crowd-related disaster globally. Another 36 ...

Reuters and local media reported witnesses seeing several dead bodies near the river bank, and photos from Reuters ... measures scaled up ahead of festival Crowd crushes at religious gatherings ...

In 2013, dozens of people were killed and injured in a crowd crush at a railway station in Allahabad as pilgrims gathered for that year’s Kumbh Mela. Ahead of the festival in Prayagraj ...

Local government official Akanksha Rana told the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency that the stampede began after crowd control barriers "broke". The six-week festival is the single biggest ...