India's mass bathing festival turned the water sour at the 'holy' river, as pollution and waste tainted the area during the ...

"The reasons for increased faecal coliform can be several, such as sewage leakage and animal waste, but the amount of faecal ...

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government after reports of women’s videos bathing at ...

Every 12 years, hundreds of millions of Hindu pilgrims gather in northern India for a ritual bath at the confluence of the ...

As per the latest recorded data on 4 February, faecal coliform levels in the Ganges surged after a major bathing event at the ...

Thousands of devotees spilt from trains as they flocked to a river for a mass bathing festival in India. Footage shows crowds disembarking at Prayagraj Railway Station to join others already there on2 ...

Several people are feared dead and many more injured as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at the massive Maha Kumbh festival in India PRAYAGRAJ, India -- Several ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked ... two worldly and one mythical — to attain salvation. Bathing at the festival, ...

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

At an evening news conference in India ... the Shahi Snan (royal bath) has started, with holy men from akharas or religious sects taking dips in the river as people gather to see them and seek ...

The Kumbh Mela (also known as Mahakumbh) – is held once every 12 years. Hindus believe that taking a dip at Sangam – the ...