Millions of pilgrims hoping to cleanse their sins by ritual baths at India's Kumbh Mela festival rely on key lavatory workers ...

Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims are taking dips in sacred rivers in the first of a series ...

It’s late evening in the city of Prayagraj and the roadside vendors selling snacks are packing up their wares to shut for the ...

Millions of Hindu devotees and mystics have gathered in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, ...

Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is held every 12 years in the northern city of Prayagraj, as Hindus believe ...

Thousands of Hindu holy men have been arriving in Prayagraj to participate in the Kumbh Mela festival Millions of people have taken a holy bath at the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela (also known as ...

The holy festival of Maha Kumbh Mela is celebrated once every 12 years, with devotees taking a dip in the waters where the ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India--Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj on Monday to kickstart the Maha Kumbh festival ...

Keen to improve the country’s abysmal crowd management record at large-scale religious events, orga­nisers of the world’s ...

Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in Prayagraj bathed in sacred waters as the Kumbh Mela festival opened, with organisers ...

Scores of naked Hindu ascetics smeared in holy ash charged into the water of holy rivers in northern India on Tuesday, ...

Hindu ascetics arrive for a ritualistic dip at the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati during the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India (Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP ...