Some of the zeitgeist reflects enduring belief mixing with increasing wealth. According to one survey, around 80% of Indians ...

The devotees celebrate the festival in temples by pouring water or milk over the Shiva linga, a stone sculpture symbolic of ...

India's Kumbh Mela festival concluded on Wednesday, with final ritual river bathing ceremonies ending six weeks of ...

At the age of 11, Sunil Kumar journeyed 125 miles south from his home of Gondo to Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, to plunge ...

India's Kumbh Mela festival wraps up Wednesday, with final ritual river bathing ceremonies ending six weeks of celebration ...

At least 18 people were killed in a stampede at a railway station in India’s capital of New Delhi, the Press Trust of India news agency reported Sunday. Many of the victims were Hindu pilgrims who ...

Distressed by the stampede at New Delhi Railway Station ... The six-week Kumbh Mela is the single biggest milestone on the Hindu religious calendar, and officials said around 500 million devotees ...

Broadcaster NDTV reported three more dead from the stampede, quoting an official of ... Kumbh Mela is the single biggest milestone on the Hindu religious calendar, and officials said around ...

The Kumbh Mela attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful every 12 years to the northern city of Prayagraj, and has a history of crowd-related disasters -- including one last month, when at least 30 ...

one of the most auspicious days of the Hindu calendar. Some of the largest casualties caused by stampedes over the recent years include the deadly stampede that occurred last year on July 2 during ...

At least 15 people, mostly women and children, died and 15 were injured in a stampede at New Delhi's main railway station, the chief minister of India's capital territory told reporters early on ...