More than 500 million people have taken a "holy dip" in sacred river waters in north India over the last four weeks as part ...

More than 10 million devout Hindus seeking absolution from their sins took a dip in holy waters in northern India during a ...

At least 10 people were killed after a car carrying Hindu pilgrims to the Maha Kumbh festival collided with a bus in the ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Channi Anand is based in Jammu, a strategic location not far from the India-Pakistan border that ...

The lost-and-found center at the world’s largest religious gathering attends to the faithful’s earthly needs as they perform ...

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

PRAYAGRAJ, India — At least 30 people were killed and many more injured in a stampede at the world’s largest religious ...

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

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers meet, officials said. By Hari Kumar and Anupreeta Das ...

A video spread online shows an annual stone-pelting ritual in northern India, contrary to claims by social media posts that ...

Here's a closer look at the festival. India's Maha — or grand — Kumbh Mela is the largest religious gathering in the world. It is often referred to as the "festival of festivals" and a ...

India's Kumbh Mela festival attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful to Prayagraj in northern Uttar Pradesh state, but ...