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

More than seven people were killed in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, in the northern Indian ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire tore through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people in India’s northern Prayagraj city, officials said Sunday.

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire tore through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people in India’s northern Prayagraj city, officials said Sunday.

A fire has torn through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people in India’s northern Prayagraj city NEW DELHI -- A fire tore through at least 18 ...

A fire has torn through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people in India. No-one is believed to have been injured in the blaze in the northern city ...

An Indian diocese has opened its facilities to welcome Hindu pilgrims during a six-week festival in a northern city, hailing it as a “wonderful experience of faith.” Organizers of the millennia-old ...

Prayagraj (India) (AFP) – Millions of pilgrims hoping to cleanse their sins by ritual baths at India's Kumbh Mela festival rely on key lavatory workers to clear up behind them -- those born on ...

The festival of Kumbh Mela is different from Diwali and Holi as it involves a pilgrimage. Every year, followers of the Hindu faith will travel to sacred places and bathe in India’s great rivers, the ...

A Hindu pilgrim prays after bathing at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna, and the Saraswati rivers on the first day of the 45-day-long Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India, Monday ...