The Kumbh Mela is the world's largest religious gathering, attracting hundreds of millions of Hindu worshippers. Here's how India prepared—and what happens once it's all over.

Today we think of Hinduism as an eternal religion, somehow unchanged since the days of the Vedas in the 2nd millennium BCE. Indeed, much of the marketing around the 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela has ...

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Heartwarming story of D. Krishna Kumar and his 75-year-old mother on a country-wide pilgrimage, defying societal norms.

A total of Rs 10 crore will be spent on all the pilgrimage sites in Sambhal -- 19 wells and 68 shrines. This includes the ...

SURYAPET, India (AP) — Chants of “Om Linga, Om Linga” resonated as barefoot Hindu pilgrims, many balancing offering-filled baskets and clay pitchers on their heads, climbed more than 100 steps to a ...

Many of the victims were Hindu pilgrims who were traveling to the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj in northern India, according to Delhi's caretaker chief minister, Atishi, who uses only one name.

Crowds had swelled because trains carrying Hindu pilgrims to the Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious festival, had been delayed, according to local media. By Eve Sampson Fifteen people ...

Many of the victims were Hindu pilgrims who were traveling to the Maha Kumbh festival in northern India, according to Delhi’s caretaker chief minister. A relative of one of the deceased said an ...

Senior religious leader Goswami Ji acknowledged that Hindu religious sites in Pakistan are well-preserved and maintained in ...