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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Naked Hindu ascetics and pilgrims took dips in the freezing waters at the confluence of sacred rivers in northern India on ...

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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.

Held every 12 years, the Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival, as the religious event in the city of Prayagraj in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh is called, attracts more than 400 million ...

Hindu pilgrims with gather at the confluence of three rivers where they will begin a journey to reach Hindu philosophy's ...