Grieving families in India are cremating their loved ones while others are caring for their injured relatives in hospitals a ...

Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world’s largest religious ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of people at a massive religious gathering in India rushed to take a holy bath in the ...

Hindu worshippers take a holy bath on the banks of the Sangam during the Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj, India, 29.01.2025 ...

The Congress on Saturday (January 25, 2025) announced that it would introduce free pilgrimages for the elderly to Buddhist places of worship if voted to power in the upcoming Delhi Assembly election.

That is around 200 times the 2 million pilgrims who were in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage last year. The festival started on Jan. 13 with tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics ...

At least 15 people were killed and many more injured on Wednesday in Prayagraj, northern India, during a stampede at the giant Kumbh Mela Hindu pilgrimage. Held every 12 years, the gathering ...

The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, ...

Every four years, during this Hindu festival, a massive crowd plunges ... as a driver of India’s economic growth, this centennial pilgrimage must be spectacular. In power since 2014, the Indian ...

By comparison, the Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia drew 1.8 million ... Indiacategory Millions of Hindus take 'holy dip' a day after fatal stampede 7:36 AM UTC Indiacategory Moments before deadly ...

At least 30 people were killed and many more injured in a stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering early Wednesday, ...