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

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

The literature festival season that starts in India in November goes on well into ... as representatives of their homelands? These are some of the questions that Fumiko Enchi of Japan, Javier ...

But at the festival, where millions are flocking to pray and bathe at the confluence of India’s holy rivers, it morphs into a major display of Hinduism in various forms and designs. Some pilgrims wear ...

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 ... take dips at points along the ...

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

Taking place in Pushkar of Rajasthan every year, it is a festival one should witness when looking for some ancient and old traditional-style Indian celebrations. It was originally held to attract ...

Hindu pilgrim Parvati Gupta braved jostling crowds to be at the world’s largest religious festival in India but will leave ... “Authorities had closed off some routes, leaving us stuck in ...

But at the festival, where millions are flocking to pray and bathe at the confluence of India’s holy rivers, it morphs into a major display of Hinduism in various forms and designs. Some ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims and tourists to India. The 45-day ... It covers some 15 square miles. About 50,000 security personnel ...

(AP Photo/Channi Anand) PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked ...