While the Mahakumbh’s roots stretch back thousands of years, its relevance remains undiminished in the modern era. The ...

What is the Kumbh Mela, and why is it held in four cities periodically? What is Ardh Kumbh and Maha Kumbh? What is the origin ...

Millions of Hindu devotees are bathing in sacred waters as the world’s biggest religious gathering begins in India’s northern ...

Hindu ascetics, from crowd of 35 million devotees attending, take dip in freezing waters, seeking absolution from sins.

Scores of naked Hindu ascetics smeared in holy ash charged into the water of holy rivers in northern India yesterday, ...

On 14 January Tuesday earlier morning nearly 15 million Hindus, six times the number expected, took a dip in freezing waters seeking absolution of their sins on the first day of a six-week festival in ...

Nearly 15 million Hindus, six times the number expected, took a dip in freezing waters seeking absolution of their sins on ...

The Kumbh originates in a Hindu belief that four drops of the nectar of immortality fell to earth, one in Prayagraj, during a ...

By Saurabh Sharma PRAYAGRAJ, India (Reuters) -Naked Hindu ascetics smeared in holy ash charged into the waters of sacred ...

The dip by the ascetics, who wore only holy beads, though some wielded tridents, spears, or maces, signals the start of the ...

Hindus believe bathing at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers will cleanse them of their sins.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is set to be the world's largest gathering of ...