It’s late evening in the city of Prayagraj and the roadside vendors selling snacks are packing up their wares to shut for the ...

For pilgrims at the largest gathering of humanity, ritual bathing in India's holy rivers includes a key challenge -- finding ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Naked Hindu ascetics and pilgrims took dips in the freezing waters at the confluence of sacred rivers ...

CONTAINS NUDITY Naked men joined a religious mass bathing festival in India. Footage shows the ash-covered worshippers draped in marigold garlands marching on the streets toward the Triveni Sangam ...

A little farther, Nagavalli Gupta reads a prayer book while her husband sits cross-legged wearing a woolen cap, wrapped in a ...

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.

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

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 and mystics have ... Many pilgrims stay for the entire festival, observing austerity, giving alms and bathing at sunrise every day. “We feel peaceful here and attain ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India — Millions of Hindu devotees ... Many pilgrims stay for the entire festival, observing austerity, giving alms and bathing at sunrise every day. “We feel peaceful here and ...

Hindus believe that bathing at the confluence will cleanse them of their sins and release them from the cycle of rebirth. The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu ...