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

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

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

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

Catholic educational institutions close to bathing spots are thrown open for the convenience of pilgrims at Kumbla Mela ...

Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is held every 12 years in the northern city of Prayagraj, as Hindus believe ...

Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India began bathing in sacred waters on Monday as the Kumbh Mela festival opened, with ...

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.

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.