Millions of Hindu devotees and mystics have gathered in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, ...

Naked Hindu ascetics and pilgrims are taking holy dips in sacred rivers in the first major bathing day of the Maha Kumbh ...

A fire has torn through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people in India’s ...

About 400 million Hindu pilgrims from around the globe are expected to bathe in and around the Ganges in the religion’s ...

The event - held once every 12 years - starts on Monday and over the next six weeks, the devout will bathe at Sangam - the ...

Police say 300 cameras at the festival site and on roads leading to the sprawling encampment, along with a fleet of overhead ...

The holy festival of Maha Kumbh Mela is celebrated once every 12 years, with devotees taking a dip in the waters where the ...

Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at dawn on the first most significant bathing ...

Aerial images of Hindu holy men and devotees taking a ceremonial dip in Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers, for Shahi Snan or "royal bath" as part of the Kumbh ...

The world’s largest public gathering — the Maha Kumbh Mela — begins this week in India. More than 400 million people are ...

Held every 12 years, 2025's Maha Kumbh mela has seen the construction of 400km of temporary roads, a 10,000-acre pop-up tent ...