NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took holy dips in sacred river waters in the northern city of ...

Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India on Wednesday as tens of millions ...

Videos from the scene showed victims being rushed to ambulances or lying motionless on the ground after a large crowd broke ...

The late release of casualty figures at the gathering of millions of people was seen as shielding the political fortunes of a ...

A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the ...

Eyewitnesses recounted chaotic scenes with hundreds of people climbing over barricades and falling over one another.

Many were feared dead after millions of Hindu pilgrims at a huge Hindu festival in India rushed to bathe in holy river waters ...

Between 90 to 100 million pilgrims had congregated to take ritual baths in sacred rivers at a festival in northern India.

At least 30 people were killed and over 30 have been injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world's biggest ...

Grieving families in India are cremating their loved ones while others are caring for their injured relatives in hospitals a ...

Police had to resort to using water guns to disburse the crowd in Cuttack. Eager cricket fans gathered in large numbers on Tuesday night; some even fell ill.