Ritual bathing at the confluence of large rivers has long held special significance in Hindu rituals. Sangam, where the Ganga ...

Ritual bathing at the confluence of large rivers has long held special significance in Hindu rituals. Sangam, where the Ganga ...

A video spread online shows an annual stone-pelting ritual in northern India, contrary to claims by social media posts that ...

India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a ritual river dip on Wednesday at the world's largest religious ...

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of ...

Indian officials downplayed a deadly stampede at the world's largest religious festival because they wanted to protect the public image of a potential successor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, analys ...

This is the chaotic moment thousands of Indian worshippers piled into a train bound for the country's mass bathing festival.

Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest religious congregation. People take a series of ritual baths at the confluence ...

On the first day of the event, 15 million devotees took part in the holy dip, marking the auspicious Paush Purnima bathing festival ... influx of pilgrims. The Indian Railways is operating ...

The bathing festival in India resumed just hours after the tragic stampede despite 30 worshippers being killed yesterday.

A Hindu devotee shouts as he makes way for the injured after a deadly stampede before the second "Shahi Snan" (royal bath) at ...