On 14 January Tuesday earlier morning nearly 15 million Hindus, six times the number expected, took a dip in freezing waters seeking absolution of their sins on the first day of a six-week festival in ...

By Saurabh Sharma PRAYAGRAJ, India (Reuters) -Naked Hindu ascetics smeared in holy ash charged into the waters of sacred ...

Hindus believe bathing at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers will cleanse them of their sins.

The Maha Kumbh Mela in India anticipates 400 million visitors at its six-week extravaganza. Authorities have established a temporary city with massive infrastructure and security measures. Advanced ...

Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims are taking dips in sacred rivers in the first of a series ...

The 'royal bath' is a key part of the event, held every 12 years in the city of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, significant because Hindus believe it confers salvation from the cycle of birth and death, i ...

India's Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is set to be the world's largest gathering of humanity, with 400 million ...

Millions of Hindu devotees are bathing in sacred waters as the world’s biggest religious gathering begins in India’s northern ...

Millions of people have taken a holy bath at the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela (also known as Mahakumbh) - described as humanity's biggest gathering - in northern India's Prayagraj city on Monday.

Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj on ...