The event - held once every 12 years - starts on Monday and over the next six weeks, the devout will bathe at Sangam - the ...

Naked Hindu ascetics and pilgrims are taking holy dips in sacred rivers in the first major bathing day of the Maha Kumbh ...

Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at dawn on the first most significant bathing ...

Tens of thousands of Hindus seeking absolution of their sins immersed themselves on Monday in freezing waters at the ...

India -- Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the confluence of sacred rivers in northern India on Tuesday, in the first of a series of ...

Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the confluence of sacred ...

Millions of people bathed in the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Sarasvati rivers on January 13, as India’s biggest Hindu festival began. Footage released by the Office of the Chief Minister of ...

India began on Monday its Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, which is expected to draw more than 400 million ...

For pilgrims at the largest gathering of humanity, ritual bathing in India's holy rivers includes a key challenge -- finding ...

The Kumbh Mela is intricately timed with celestial alignments of Jupiter, the Sun, and the Moon, which are believed to ...

Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival begins in India on Monday, a Hindu sacred event that will be the world's largest ...