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UP Police are consumed with avoiding another Maha Kumbh stampede. Result: A ‘25 km’ trudge to Sangam

Security measures include no-vehicle zone in mela area, restrictions on vehicles entering Prayagraj. Devotees abandoning transport stranded on highways & heading to mela on foot. 

Crowd science isn’t a mystery. Kumbh stampede was preventable

Maha Kumbh stampede shows deep cracks in crowd management. India, a country of 1.4 billion, can’t afford to keep getting it wrong.

2 days after Kumbh stampede, devotees still search for loved ones, security boosted around Sangam area

The stampede was caused by a surge in devotees around the Sangam area Wednesday, all attempting to bathe during ‘brahm muhurt’, a period before sunrise considered auspicious.

12 hours after Maha Kumbh stampede, TV news back to ‘unshakeable faith, excellent arrangement’

Watching television on Wednesday morning you would have thought that nothing had happened just six hours earlier.

30 people died in Maha Kumbh stampede, 60 others injured, says UP Police

The tragedy took place when massive crowds gathered to take a holy dip on Mauni Amavasya.

I saw a Maha Kumbh stampede in the making during the first Shahi Snan

Reaching the Sangam waters was a challenge in itself—everyone was jostling for space, making it difficult to even catch a breath.

‘Loss of faith in UP govt,’ Akhilesh Yadav calls for Army interference in Mahakumbh stampede

In an X post, Yadav criticised the state govt for failing to deliver on its promises of a 'world-class system' and called for the resignation of those responsible for the incident.

At least a dozen feared dead in Mahakumbh stampede, devotees say ‘no arrangements for common people’

Prayagraj SSP says there was no stampede, but excessive crowding. Over 50 injured devotees are being treated in various medical facilities.

‘Condolences to those who lost loved ones,’ Modi after Mahakumbh stampede

The incident occurred in the early hours as millions of devotees gathered to take a holy dip on the occasion of Mauni Amavasya.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.