Hindu devotees gather ahead of the second sacred bathing ritual, or 'Shahi Snan', during the Kumbh Mela festival at Sangam, the confluence of the holy rivers Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati, in Prayagraj ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (Reuters) - Inspired by stories of families separated among the millions celebrating the weeks-long Maha Kumbh Mela, old Bollywood films often featured plots in which siblings got ...

At least 30 people were killed and another 60 injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh festival, a six-week Hindu festival and the world’s largest religious gathering. The stampede happened when ...

India is often called the land of festivals, and rightly so. From Diwali’s lights to Holi’s colors, from Eid’s feasts to Christmas carols, every festival in India is a grand affair. But festivals were ...

The 2026 holiday calendar lists all major festivals, national public holidays and religious observances, helping people ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India — Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj on Monday to kickstart the Maha Kumbh festival, which is ...

LUCKNOW, India — At least 46 people, most of them children, have drowned while bathing in rivers and ponds swollen by recent floods during the observance of a Hindu religious festival celebrated by ...

India's festival of lights, Diwali, was on Wednesday announced as an addition to UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list, sparking celebrations.

Eating glass. Fire walking. Sword swallowing. These acts that shock and delight have roots in the real and mythical practices of Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, and Jain ascetics. This studio portrait of an ...

The money from the pockets of Indian devotees is overflowing from the donation boxes in temples and spilling onto the travel industry. Hotels, airlines, and travel agencies are all placing their faith ...

A Delhi court ruled the lieutenant disobeyed his superior’s orders by not taking part in Sikh and Hindu worship. When Samuel Kamalesan, a Christian officer in the Indian Army, asked to not take part ...

Jan. 28 (UPI) --Dozens of worshippers are feared dead and many more injured following a stampede or crush Wednesday at the massive Kumbh Mela religious festival in northern India, according to ...