A massive fire broke out Friday at India's ongoing mega Hindu festival Maha Kumbh Mela in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh ...

The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, drawn by the hope that the bathing would ...

Millions of missionaries work in schools, hospitals and other institutions. Their success is deepening divisions.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat stated that global harmony would be enhanced if all Hindus came ...

A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the ...

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and ...

Witnesses described a mass of people rushing to take a pre-dawn dip at the confluence of the three sacred rivers.

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

This sacred stroke, called tilak, is ubiquitous to the millions of Hindu pilgrims attending the Maha Kumbh festival in India's northern Prayagraj city, where faithful gather at the spot where the ...

A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias PRAYAGRAJ, India -- The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people ...

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