The Maha Kumbh festival is expected to include at least 400 million people—more than the population of the United States—according to officials. That is around 200 times the number of pilgrims ...

part of a large crowd of 35 million devotees who took the holy dip on the second day of the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, seeking absolution from their sins. The “royal bath” of ...

Millions of Hindu pilgrims followed them into the confluence. The Maha Kumbh festival — held every 12 years — started Monday, with more than 15 million pilgrims bathing in the holy rivers ...

Tens of thousands of people immersed themselves in freezing waters at the confluence of sacred rivers as the six-week Maha Kumbh Mela festival began in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Monday.