What is the Maha Kumbh Mela and why does it attract millions of Hindus? - Officials had been preparing for months for the ...

More than seven people were killed in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, in the northern Indian ...

A crowd crush has injured several people at the world’s largest religious festival in India, organizers reported Wednesday.

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

The six-week-long Maha Kumbh Mela has begun in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, with at least 40 crore people expected to gather over the next 45 days. Devotees will bathe at the confluence of three sacred ...

Only now can I discern the individual droplets making up this riverine flow: millions upon millions of human bodies swaddled ...

Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women have flocked to the northern Indian city of Prayagraj on Monday to kickstart the world's largest religious gathering. The Maha Kumbh festival ...

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 ...

(AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) A Hindu holy man smokes marijuana at his makeshift living ... of 12 years during a festival called the Maha Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival. The festival is a series ...

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 ...