New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- Bathing in the Ganges: Devotees' Most Sacred Moment! India given 'huge advantage': Pat Cummins slams unfair ICC Champions Trophy decision

India's Kumbh Mela festival wraps up Wednesday, with final ritual river bathing ceremonies ending six weeks of celebration that organisers say have been attended by hundreds of millions of devotees. Just on Wednesday,

Crowds had swelled because trains carrying Hindu pilgrims to the Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious festival, had been delayed, according to local media.

ALBAWABA - Indian officials confirmed that at least 18 were killed in a stampede at a railway station in the capital New Delhi on Saturday.Reports revea

The devotees celebrate the festival in temples by pouring water or milk over the Shiva linga, a stone sculpture symbolic of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. Some also observe a fast during the day and stay up all night, singing and dancing to religious songs.

At least 18 people died during a stampede at a railway station in India’s New Delhi late on Saturday when surging crowds scrambled to catch trains to the Kumbh Mela, officials and reports said.

THE protests that thousands of people, mostly of Gaibandha, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari and Rangpur have held are a rightful reaction to India’s unilateral withdrawal of water of the River Teesta which causes a gradual desertification of Bangladesh’s north.

Thousands of people were caught in a train station crush in New Delhi as millions of pilgrims descended on the largest religious gathering in the world, the Kumbh Mela, or Maha Kumbh

The horrifying crush took place at a railway station in India as tens of millions of people travel to the Hindu festival Kumbh Mela

Local media in India say a stampede at a New Delhi railway station has killed at least 15 people. Passengers had been waiting to board a train to a city in the north of the country, where a major Hindu festival is underway.

Dhaka on Sunday raised the renewal of the 30-year Ganges water sharing treaty with New Delhi as Bangladesh foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain and Indian external affairs minister S Jaishankar held a meeting on the sidelines of a conference in Muscat in Oman.