A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. At the Maha Kumbh festival, where millions are flocking to pray and bathe at the confluence of India’s ...

Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world’s largest religious ...

The grandeur and magnificence of the ongoing Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj have left even NASA astronauts amazed. Don Pettit, ...

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

Mahakumbh Nagar, Jan. 14 -- The Maha Kumbh has emerged as a global epicenter of faith and a symbol of world unity. Pilgrims from across India and countries like the United States, Russia ...

Tens of thousands of people immersed themselves in freezing waters at the confluence of sacred rivers as the six-week Maha Kumbh Mela festival ... the state and the national level.

The Mahila Naga Sadhvis, or female ascetics, live austere lives devoted to meditation, yoga, and chanting. Wearing unstitched ...

Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women have gathered in India's northern city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh ...