Hindu devotees made the first pilgrimage to Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh state, India on Jan. 14-15, 2019 for the beginning of the Kumbh Mela festival. Every year, the Kumbh Mela consists of a series of ...

Starting Tuesday, tens of millions of Hindu devotees in India will gather to wash their sins away on the banks of the Ganges River in a festival known as the Kumbh Mela. The tradition, which dates ...

More than 100 million people are expected to attend this year's Kumbh Mela. LONDON -- Elephants, horses and an expected crowd of more than 120 million people began to descend on Prayagraj, India, ...

“I certainly must have done something good in my past life to have seen this day,” says one of the group’s leaders. Transgender activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi leads a religious procession during the ...

Tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims have descended on the Indian city of Prayagraj for the Kumbh Mela, one of the largest religious gatherings on the planet. Clad in saffron robes and scarves, an ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India — Every six years, tens of millions of Hindus pour into the northern Indian city of Prayagraj to take a holy dip in the Ganges River. The festival is called the Kumbh Mela, and in its ...

Kumbh Mela, an eight-week religious festival, begins Tuesday in in Prayagraj, India. Authorities expect 150 million people to make a pilgrimage to bathe at the confluence of three rivers: the Ganges, ...

The biggest pilgrimage on the planet has kicked off in India. From now until March, up to 120 million pilgrims – nearly double the population of the UK or France – are expected to travel to Prayagraj ...

The lost-and-found center at the world’s largest religious gathering attends to the faithful’s earthly needs as they perform rituals intended to purify the soul. Pilgrims showing photographs of their ...

This year brought big changes to Indian society. The Supreme Court decriminalized gay sex and scrapped an outdated adultery law, both relics of the colonial past, while the #MeToo movement finally ...

Ahead of the 2026 Magh Mela, Uttar Pradesh is enhancing tourist facilities, expecting 12-15 crore visitors, with four new information centres for assistance.

Mahakumbh-2025 will project the rich cultural heritage of India on the world stage, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said while inaugurating development projects and equipment worth ₹237.38 crore ...