West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's remark calling Maha Kumbh 2025 "Mrityu Kumbh" sparked a massive political uproar, with BJP and religious leaders condemning her statement as an attack on ...

Pavitra Nandagiri is a Mahamandaleshwar—one of the highest-ranking monks of the Transgender Arena at the massive religious festival, Maha Kumbh.

Hundreds of cleaners battled through pollution at India's bathing festival - setting a new world record for the world's ...

This display of Indian women’s most idiosyncratic garment — known as the sari — is, however, seen mostly when it is sun-dried ...

At least 10 people were killed after a car carrying Hindu pilgrims to the Maha Kumbh festival collided with a bus in the ...

The lost-and-found center at the world’s largest religious gathering attends to the faithful’s earthly needs as they perform ...

Called the world’s largest religious gathering, the event has already drawn 148 million people. Attendance is expected to exceed 400 million by the time it ends on Feb. 26, and surging crowds have ...

Magh Purnima holds immense significance in Hinduism. Observed on the full moon day of the Magh month, this auspicious ...

In the month of Magha, the Purnima that falls during this time is known as Magha Purnima. This year, Magha Purnima will be ...

India’s government said yesterday that more than 420 million pilgrims have ritually bathed at the world’s largest religious ...

For millions of Hindu pilgrims at India's millennia-old vast Kumbh Mela festival, the culmination of their journey is ritual ...