The festival — site of a stampede on Wednesday — is held every 12 years at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna ... in ...

Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest religious ...

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - Bodies, clothes and bags lay scattered on the ground after a deadly stampede at the world's ...

That is around 200 times the 2 million pilgrims who were in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage last year. The festival started on Jan. 13 with tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics ...

That is around 200 times the 2 million pilgrims who were in Saudi Arabia ... trains. Hindu devotees gather to take a holy dip in the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the ...

A stampede during the massive Hindu pilgrimage of the Kumbh Mela left at least 15 people dead and many others injured in ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India — Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and ... arrived in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage last year.

For many Hindu pilgrims, bathing at the festival where three holy rivers meet is the spiritual journey of a lifetime. But as ...

Witnesses described a mass of people rushing to take a pre-dawn dip at the confluence of the three sacred rivers – the Ganga, the Yamuna and ... Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia drew 1.8 million ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India--Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men ... arrived in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage last year.