Chants of “Om Linga, Om Linga” resonated as barefoot Hindu pilgrims, many balancing offering-filled baskets and clay pitchers ...

The traditional colorful Indian fabric worn by women is ubiquitous to the world’s largest religious gathering in northern ...

Chaturthi Vrat, dedicated to Lord Ganesha, falls on the 3rd of March, followed by Holashtak on the 7th. Holashtak is an eight ...

During this struggle, drops of nectar fell at four sacred sites. The spiritual Hindu festival takes place once every 12 years at one of those four locations. This year, it is being held in the ...

The Kumbh Mela attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful every 12 years and has a history of crowd-related disasters ...

As hundreds of millions of Hindu pilgrims travelled to attend the 2025 Kumbh Mela in India, a video surfaced in social media ...

Social media users falsely claim an old video of a crowded alleyway was filmed at the Kumbh Mela in India days after at least ...

Know the lesser-known facts about Maha Shivaratri and its spiritual significance, mythological stories, rituals, and unique celebrations across India ...

At least 10 people were killed after a car carrying Hindu pilgrims to the Maha Kumbh festival collided with a bus in the ...

The unfathomable scale of the world's largest religious festival in India overshadows many nations in size -- and for the ...

Indian media have reported deadly bus crashes involving Kumbh Mela pilgrims, but footage shared on social media of an ...

Religion, politics and the economy are deeply intertwined in India -- and the six-week-long Hindu festival of the Kumbh Mela gives one of the clearest examples. The Hindu nationalist government of ...