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India's Modi Takes Ritual Dip At Hindu Mega-festival

India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a ritual river dip on Wednesday at the world's largest religious festival, a week after a stampede killed at least 30 pilgrims.

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AP PHOTOS: Hundreds join an order of naked, armed holy men at Hindu festival

Thousands of devotees jostle behind bamboo fences to get a glimpse of the grand procession of the naked, ash-smeared and armed Hindu holy men. The Naga Sadhus are the highlight of the Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest religious gathering now underway in northern India.

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Narendra Modi's appeal faces test as Delhi votes in state election

More than 15 million people are registered to vote at over 13,000 polling booths in the capital on Wednesday

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In India around 13 major recognized akhadas, with the most prominent being the Juna Akhara, Niranjani Akhara, and Mahanirvani Akhara, all playing significant roles in the Kumbh Mela festival. A must read the full story in Dynamite News:

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Hindu ascetic rising from the river after a holy dip is emblematic of Maha Kumbh festival in India

The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of water in a clockwise swirl. Others surround him, with some holding the saffron flag of Hinduism, all repeating a centuries-old ritual that Hindus believe cleanses them of their sins…

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Zakia Jafri: Human rights activist and Gujarat riots widow dies aged 86

Human rights campaigner Zakia Jafri spent 20 years trying to hold political figures, including Narendra Modi, accountable for 2002 massacre

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Lessons from Bihar, India's booze ban

Banning booze in Bihar has empowered gangs and illicit markets in an echo of the 1920s. Here's what went wrong

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HC issues notice as Mahesh Langa claims he was booked in ‘speculative case’

The Hindu journalist Mahesh Langa has told the Gujarat High Court that the case filed against him by the Gandhinagar Police over obtaining “highly confidential government documents” through an alleged criminal conspiracy was “speculative in every sense”, LiveLaw reported.

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Sacred strokes of color on foreheads are a major display of Hinduism at India’s Maha Kumbh festival

A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias

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How excitement of Hindu pilgrims turned to death and chaos at Maha Kumbh Mela

SPECIAL REPORT: For many Hindu pilgrims, bathing at the festival where three holy rivers meet is the spiritual journey of a lifetime. But as millions descended on this northeast Indian tent city, was it a disaster waiting to happen? Namita Singh reports from Prayagraj

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Tragedy Strikes Maha Kumbh Festival In Northern India

Tragic stampede at Maha Kumbh festival in India leaves 30 dead and 60 injured, investigation underway. Hindus gather for sacred bathing ritual amidst mourning.

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India's Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest religious gathering, by the numbers

Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world’s largest religious congregation

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Kumbh Mela crowd crush: Scattered belongings line floor after fatal stampede in India

Belongings of Hindu devotees were left strewn on the ground after at least seven people died in multiple stampedes at India's Kumbh Mela festival.

International Business Times

Crowd Chaos And Confusion At Site Of India Festival Stampede

Journeying across India for the pinnacle celebration of the Hindu calendar, Laxmi and her family were sleeping by the roadside Wednesday as they waited to cleanse themselves in the sacred Ganges river.

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Maha Kumbh: At least 15 feared dead in stampede during huge Hindu festival in India

Crush happened as pilgrims tried to jump over police barricades to reach Sangam Nose, the point where India's Ganges river meets Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers

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The Independent UK

In pictures: What is the Maha Kumbh Mela and why does it attract millions of Hindus?

Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims expected to take part

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At least 30 killed in crush at India’s Mahakumbh Mela religious festival

The crowd crush occurred at the world’s largest religious event for Hindus, attended by hundreds of millions of people.

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Kumbh Mela stampede: A look back at deadly crowd disasters in India

Several people are feared dead and many more injured at the massive Kumbh Mela festival in India

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Multiple Feared Dead In Crowd Crush At Indian Religious Festival

Tragedy strikes at the Maha Kumbh Mela in India as a crowd crush leads to multiple feared deaths during the Hindu festival. Efforts to enhance safety measu...

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Maha Kumbh Mela: At least 30 dead in multiple stampedes at huge Hindu gathering

Witnesses describe people describe surging crowds on the banks of the Ganges during Hindu festival

International Business Times

15 Dead In India After Stampede At Hindu Mega-festival

A stampede at the world's largest religious gathering in India killed at least 15 people with many more injured, a doctor at the Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj told AFP Wednesday.

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India hopes Mahakumbh will bring in investors, but economists are sceptical

Uttar Pradesh state has pumped in millions for the 45-day festival, which is largest gathering of Hindus every 12 years.

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