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 ...

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 ...

Ash-smeared sadhus (holy people) gather for the festival.Credit: Only now can I discern the individual droplets making up ...

(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 ...

Kumbh Mela is said to be one of those rare events where the common ... hold tridents or any weapon, and smoke marijuana through a pipe called chillum or ‘Shiv Muli’. They draw their inspiration for ...

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Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...

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 ...

Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, attended the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj. Her departure from Prayagraj marked the first international flight from the city's airport in ...