Uttarakhand is hosting the Pushkar Kumbh Mela at Keshav Prayag in Mana village after 12 years, inaugurated by Chief Minister ...

Apart from surveillance, 2,000 drones will be used to narrate the legendary tales of "Prayag Mahatmyam" and "Samudra Manthan." Emerging technologies are going full throttle at the Maha Kumbh Mela ...

"Beyond the sacred dip itself, my experience at the Kumbh Mela revealed something deeper: the collective unity we are always ...

A foreign devotee takes a holy dip at Sangam on the first day of Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 in Prayagraj. Credit: PTI Photo Foreign devotees at Sangam on the occasion of 'Makar Sankranti' during the ...

in Prayag (Allahabad), has two physical rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and the invisible or mythic Saraswati River. It is a place of religious importance and is also the site for the historic Kumbh Mela ...

UP Police has also deployed thousands of AI-powered CCTVs, underwater drones, and state-of-the-art facilities for visitors and devotees. The main bathing rituals (Shahi Snan) of the Kumbh will ...

Among the massive crowds at the Kumbh Mela, the world's largest religious gathering in northern India's Prayagraj city, there is a unique group of people called Kalpwasis. They are mostly elderly ...

Sanjay Banoudha, a photojournalist, has been covering India's Kumbh Mela since the 1990s. This year the festival, which began on 13 January, ended on Wednesday. A lot has changed through Mr ...

Khanna, Tarun, John Macomber, and Saloni Chaturvedi. "Kumbh Mela: India's Pop-up Mega-City." Harvard Business School Case 214-023, August 2013. (Revised January 2019.) ...