Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said nearly 50 crore devotees would have taken the sacred bath at the grand ...

India says 420m pilgrims have visited Hindu mega-festival India's government said on Friday that more than 420 million pilgrims have ritually bathed at the world's largest religious festival, ...

Celebrities from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin to US actress Dakota Johnson have reportedly joined millions of pilgrims at ...

For millions of Hindu pilgrims at India's millennia-old vast Kumbh Mela festival, the culmination of their journey is ritual ...

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of immortality from demons. Hindus believe that a few drops fell in the cities ...

Hindu pilgrim Parvati Gupta braved jostling crowds to be at the world's largest religious festival in India but will leave ...

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

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 ...

At least 30 people were killed and many more were injured in a stampede at the world's largest religious gathering early on Wednesday, police said, as millions of pilgrims rushed to dip in sacred ...

rushed to bathe in holy river waters on what is considered one of the most auspicious dates in the Hindu calendar. As pilgrims rushed to the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers, which ...