Uttar Pradesh, a northern Indian state, is home to numerous temples and sacred sites. With prominent pilgrimage destinations ...

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

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.

Several people are feared dead and many more injured as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river ...

Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest religious congregation. People take a series of ritual baths at the confluence ...

Probe ordered after 30 deaths at world’s largest religious festival in India - Indian authorities have released an official ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Grieving families cremated their loved ones while others cared for their injured relatives in ...

who comprise nearly 80% of India’s more than 1.4 billion people. Modi and his Hindu nationalist party are rooted in Hindu ...

At least 30 people are dead and many more injured as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India ... week Hindu festival, and authorities expected a record 100 million devotees to engage in a ritual bath ...

In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, occupation authorities have further intensified restrictions in the garb of security for the ongoing Hindu pilgrimage ... has urged the visiting Chief ...

Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims ... The Kumbh rotates among the four pilgrimage sites about every three years on a date determined by the cosmic alignment ...