Apart from being one of the biggest spiritual congregations, Maha Kumbh has been a trade hotspot for many centuries. What are ...

A young garland seller at the Mahakumbh Mela venue in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj, who became a viral sensation on social media ...

A little farther, Nagavalli Gupta reads a prayer book while her husband sits cross-legged wearing a woolen cap, wrapped in a ...

It’s late evening in the city of Prayagraj and the roadside vendors selling snacks are packing up their wares to shut for the ...

A large number of youngsters are participating in Maha Kumbh 2025, effortlessly blending social media with spirituality. This ...

Keen to improve India's abysmal crowd management record at large-scale religious events, organisers of the world's largest human gathering are using artificial intelligence to try to prevent stampedes ...

As the Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 unfolds in Prayagraj, memories of my experience at Ujjain’s Simhasth Kumbh Mela in 2016 resurface ...

Elderly individuals go missing at Kumbh Mela, sparking desperate searches and highlighting challenges of digital tracking.

Thousands of Hindu holy men have been arriving in Prayagraj to participate in the Kumbh Mela festival Millions of people have taken a holy bath at the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela (also known as ...

It’s a few weeks into the year and, already, we’re planning everywhere we want to go next. Lale chats with her well-traveled ...

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past three ...