PRAYAGRAJ, India ... Kumbh festival, which is being touted as the world's largest religious gathering. Over about the next six weeks, Hindu pilgrims with gather at the confluence of three ...

Local administrators estimate the total number of visits to this year’s Maha Kumbh over a 45-day period at a massive 663 ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims and tourists to India. The 45-day ... reportedly killing roughly three dozen people and injuring many ...

Every 12 years the festival carries the prefix “Maha,” which means great, as it’s the largest gathering of the Kumbh Mela that’s held every three years ... to transform India from a ...

Diwali, also known as Deepavali and the Hindu “Festival of Lights,” is one of India's most widely celebrated ... 14.2% practice Islam, 2.3% Christianity and 1.7% Sikhism.

Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India ... festival is a series of ritual baths by Hindu sadhus, or holy men, and other pilgrims at the confluence of ...

Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India ... festival is a series of ritual baths by Hindu sadhus, or holy men, and other pilgrims at the confluence of ...