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

Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...

The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

Between 90 to 100 million pilgrims had congregated to take ritual baths in sacred rivers at a festival in northern India.

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and ...

At least 17 people were killed and many more injured in a stampede at India's Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest ...

Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan on Monday stoked controversy through her remarks that the Ganga water in Uttar Pradesh's ...

"Bodies have been thrown in the river because of which the water has been contaminated. The real issues are not being ...

Videos from the scene showed victims being rushed to ambulances or lying motionless on the ground after a large crowd broke ...

To accommodate and regulate the massive influx of pilgrims, the government of Uttar Pradesh constructed a temporary city along the banks of the Ganga river, complete with tents, toilets ...