{"id":226776,"date":"2025-01-29T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/in-photos-the-aftermath-of-the-maha-kumbh-mela-stampede\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:11:20","slug":"in-photos-the-aftermath-of-the-maha-kumbh-mela-stampede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/in-photos-the-aftermath-of-the-maha-kumbh-mela-stampede\/","title":{"rendered":"In Photos: The Aftermath of the Maha Kumbh Mela Stampede"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/29\/multimedia\/29india-kumbh-photos-01-kcvf\/29india-kumbh-photos-01-kcvf-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"In Photos: The Aftermath of the Maha Kumbh Mela Stampede\" title=\"In Photos: The Aftermath of the Maha Kumbh Mela Stampede\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was the peak moment at one of the holiest gatherings on the Hindu calendar \u2014 the Maha Kumbh Mela, a 45-day celebration that brings hundreds of millions of the faithful to bathe in the joined Ganges and Yamuna rivers, washing away their sins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Anticipating record attendance, Indian officials said they were employing new technology to help regulate the crowds at this year\u2019s pilgrimage. But nothing was capable of keeping up with the rush as Tuesday turned to Wednesday, when an estimated 100 million came to the waters over just a handful of hours and then suddenly dashed to leave in a deadly panic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/29\/world\/asia\/india-maha-kumbh-mela-stampede.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the peak moment at one of the holiest gatherings on the Hindu calendar \u2014 the Maha Kumbh Mela, a 45-day celebration that brings hundreds of millions of the faithful to bathe in the joined Ganges and Yamuna rivers, washing away their sins. Anticipating record attendance, Indian officials said they were employing new technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/29\/multimedia\/29india-kumbh-photos-01-kcvf\/29india-kumbh-photos-01-kcvf-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14368,52213,65073,12811,32902,9456,56786,14318,75258,164579],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226778,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226776\/revisions\/226778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}