Several people were feared dead and many more injured in a stampede early on Wednesday as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at the massive Maha Kumbh festival in ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India -- The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards ..

This practice of taking a holy bath is very predominant ... the water in the holy river of Ganges turns nectar. Therefore on this day devotees from far and wide take a bath in the holy Ganga River.

NEW DELHI — At least 30 people are ... bathe in a sacred river at the massive Maha Kumbh festival in India, the world’s largest religious gathering. Wednesday was a holy day in the six-week ...

Devotees take a holy dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges ... Snan (royal bath) has started, with holy men from akharas or religious sects taking dips in the river as people gather to ...

At least 17 people were killed and many more injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh festival in northern India early Wednesday, a doctor at a government hospital said.

Several people were feared dead and many more injured in a stampede early Wednesday as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at ... of the Ganges, the Yamuna and ...

Naga Sadhus or Naked Hindu holy men take dips at Sangam, the confluence of three sacred rivers the Yamuna, the Ganges and the mythical Saraswati, on Vasant Panchami during the Kumbh Mela in ...

An ambulance moves in the middle of a crowd of Hindu devotees gathered for a holy dip by the banks of the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges ... million people had taken the holy bath by ...