The largest religious gathering in the world is taking place in India from Jan. 13 to Feb. 26. It is a significant test for ...

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

The world's largest religious gathering, the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, turned deadly Wednesday, with officials ...

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

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As hundreds of millions of Hindu pilgrims travelled to attend the 2025 Kumbh Mela in India, a video surfaced in social media posts falsely claiming it showed a train conductor taking money from an old ...

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

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims and tourists to India. The 45-day festival, which began Jan. 13, is the largest gathering of humanity in ...

This sacred stroke, called tilak, is ubiquitous to the millions of Hindu pilgrims attending the Maha Kumbh festival in India's northern Prayagraj city, where faithful gather at the spot where the ...

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledged the deaths in an address Wednesday, saying that the festival tragedy “has led to the loss of some virtuous souls, and some people have also been ...