Ratangarh Temple

MP temple stampede: NDMA should also handle overcrowding

It’s almost certain that every big temple festival in India will have some casualties because of over crowding and poor crowd-management.

Lessons ignored: MP temple stampede is doubly inexcusable

The government can’t escape the blame for negligence, as the very same site had witnessed a disaster seven years ago, when 57 people died on the ninth day of the same festival.

MP temple stampede: Four lessons for authorities for future

Planning ahead for crowd control is almost entirely absent at too many locations, notwithstanding the sterling efforts by some venues, including the Kumbh itself earlier this year.

MP temple stampede: Cops threw dead off the bridge, says survivor

Post the stampede at the Ratangarh temple, villagers and survivors have claimed that they were witness to policemen dumping bodies of pilgrims into the river to water down the death toll of the tragedy

MP death toll capped at 115, search for survivors called off

"The death toll has increased to 115 and the rescue operation is over,

How did we hold off Phailin but not MP temple stampede?

Preparedness works. That is the big message from Odisha and Andhra Pradesh and what should have been followed by authorities in the Ratnagarh temple.