The unfathomable scale of the world's largest religious festival in India overshadows many nations in size -- and for the ...

Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest religious ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India — Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the ...

More than 400 million Hindu pilgrims ... to make a similar pilgrimage at this year's Kumbh Mela festival, which runs until February. Pilgrims will wade into India's famous rivers to wash away ...

A stampede during the massive Hindu pilgrimage of the Kumbh Mela left at least 15 people dead and many others injured in ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of people at a massive religious gathering in India rushed to take a holy bath in the country's northern Prayagraj city, setting off a stampede early Wednesday that ...

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

who comprise nearly 80% of India’s more than 1.4 billion people. Modi and his Hindu nationalist party are rooted in Hindu supremacy. The number of security personnel deployed at the pilgrimage site.