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Moments before deadly stampede at India’s Maha Kumbh, devotees pleaded to open more routes

PRAYAGRAJ, India, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Moments before a deadly stampede at the world’s biggest religious gathering in India, Hindu devotees queuing to take a spiritual bath in a river said they pleaded with police to open barricaded routes to thin out a surging crowd. Police did not respond, they said, and soon people squeezed in the massive crowd began fainting, creating panic at the Maha Kumbh Mela Hindu festival in the northern city of Prayagraj. “People were asking police to open the barricades to other routes as it was suffocating to stand there in that crowd for almost an

Trump’s FBI director pick, Kash Patel, to face skeptical Democrats at Senate confirmation hearing

WASHINGTON 30, 2025 (AP) — Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, will encounter deeply skeptical questioning from Democratic senators Thursday about his loyalty to the president and stated desire to overhaul the bureau as he faces a high-stakes hearing that will help determine his path toward confirmation. Patel, a Trump loyalist who has railed against the FBI over its investigations into the president and claimed that Jan. 6 rioters were mistreated by the Justice Department, was picked in November to replace Christopher Wray, who led the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency for more than seven

Nobody above law in country: Supreme Court in matrimonial case

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI) Nobody is above the law in this country, the Supreme Court on Thursday observed in a dispute between a man and his estranged wife, an IPS officer. Justices B R Gavai, Augustine George Masih and K Vinod Chandran made the remark after the man’s counsel raised an apprehension that he would be made to suffer all his life for the estranged wife was an IPS officer. The bench said the parties should settle their disputes in the interest of justice. “She is an IPS officer. You are a businessman. Rather than wasting your time in

Several people are feared dead in a stampede at the massive Maha Kumbh festival in India

PRAYAGRAJ, India, January 29, 2025 (AP) — Several people were feared dead and many more injured in a stampede early Wednesday as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take ritual baths in sacred rivers at the massive Maha Kumbh festival in northern India. Several pilgrims were injured, some seriously, in the stampede between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. as they tried to jump barricades erected for the movement of religious saints, Uttar Pradesh state’s top elected official, Yogi Adityanath, said in a televised statement. He made no mention of any deaths even eight hours after the crush of pilgrims

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