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

India began on Monday its Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, which is expected to draw more than 400 million ...

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 ...

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 Kumbh originates in a Hindu belief that four drops of the nectar of immortality fell to earth, one in Prayagraj, during a ...

Officials had expected the first ritual dip to draw 2.5 million visitors, but the State Chief Minister says 15 million ...

Scores of naked Hindu ascetics smeared in holy ash charged into the water of holy rivers in northern India yesterday, ...

The most propitious of these days occur in cycles of 12 years during a festival called the Maha Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival. The festival is a series of ritual baths by Hindu sadhus ...

Hindu ascetics, from crowd of 35 million devotees attending, take dip in freezing waters, seeking absolution from sins.

Touted as an event for spiritual purificationin Hinduism, Kumbh Mela takes place approximately every 12 years at four ...

The 'royal bath' of the ascetics is a key part of the event, held every 12 years in the northern city of Prayagraj, because ...