Authorities say severe overcrowding and a lack of exits contributed to a stampede at a religious festival in northern India that left at least 121 people dead as the faithful surged toward the ...

An unmanageably large crowd, race to touch 'Bhole Baba's' aka 'Parmatma's' feet and collect soil from his exit path on the slippery mud ground due to an overflowing drain nearby seemingly led to the ...

The outermost circle is populated with lakhs of devotees, mostly women who are encouraged to show up to the satsangs in brightly coloured sarees. Young girls in bridal wear sit in the front rows and ...

LUCKNOW/HATHRAS: Police accused organisers of the satsang in Hathras, where 121 lives have been lost in a stampede, of hiding evidence and flouting safety norms by letting 2.5 lakh people cram ...

Girindra Nath Jha was born and raised in the tiny village of Chanka, a settlement in the state of Bihar in northern India, close to the Nepal border. It's mostly grassy fields and mud huts with ...