Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took holy dips in sacred river waters in the northern city of Prayagraj on Wednesday as ...

The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. At the Maha Kumbh festival, ...

Eyewitnesses recounted chaotic scenes with hundreds of people climbing over barricades and falling over one another.

For many Hindu pilgrims, bathing at the festival where three holy rivers meet is the spiritual journey of a lifetime. But as ...

PM Modi took a boat ride with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to reach Triveni Sangam -- the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and ...

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

Prime Minister Modi's holy dip in the Ganga during Delhi's assembly elections has sparked a controversy, with the Opposition ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival in India that is drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims, is a powerful marketing tool for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies.

Millions of devotees and political leaders have been thronging Maha Kumbh to take a holy dip in Sangam in Prayagraj.

Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...