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Millions of devotees across India are celebrating the Shivaratri festival that honors the Hindu god Shiva, one of the main ...

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The Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela, described as humanity's biggest gathering, begins in India's Prayagraj. Members of the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu and Jewish faiths blessed the gritters at a council ...

The photo of a Naga Sadhu — a Hindu ascetic — at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers in the northern city of Prayagraj, is emblematic of the ongoing Maha Kumbh ...

Others went to simply witness the mesmerizing panorama of the religious spectacle that unfolds along the confluence of two rivers, the Ganges and the Yamuna, where Hindus believe a third ...

The chief minister of India's Uttar Pradesh state has rejected a government report that found high levels of contamination in ...

India's Kumbh Mela festival wraps up Wednesday, with final ritual river bathing ceremonies ending six weeks of celebration ...

For millions of Hindu pilgrims at India's millennia-old vast Kumbh Mela festival, the culmination of their journey is ritual bathing in the holy waters where sacred rivers meet. And for as long as ...

The traditional colorful Indian fabric worn by women is ubiquitous to the world’s largest religious gathering in northern India’s Prayagraj city, where millions of Hindus are gathering to seek ...