The History Lecture Series hosted their second installment of “River Histories” on Jan. 29 with a lecture presented by ...

More than 400 urns containing the ashes of deceased Pakistani Hindus have finally been sent to Wagah border for onward travel to Haridwar in Indian state of Utterkhand where the ashes will be immersed ...

The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

The image claiming to show Jawaharlal Nehru taking a holy dip at the Kumbh Mela in 1954 is incorrect. The photo is from 1938, ...

At least 30 people have been killed and dozens more injured in crowd crushes at the Maha Kumbh Mela in India, where millions ...

The country's government has announced that it is offering a whopping $1 million prize to anyone who can crack the mysterious ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Hindu devotees take a holy dip in the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical ...

Crowds gather at the Triveni Sangam, where the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati intersect. According to Hindu Tradition, bathing at the site washes away all of a devotee's sins and ...

A separate administrative district has been set up just for the event, with a sea of 160,000 tents erected along the banks of the Ganges river for devotees to live in. Hindu devotees leave after ...

DW follows one couple’s spiritual journey to wash away their sins in the Ganges River. Ramesh Chandra promised his wife, Manju, on their wedding day two decades ago that he would take her to ...

Read more about the festival here. Hundreds of millions of pilgrims are expected to take part in ritual baths at the site of India's sacred Ganges river, Yamuna river and the mythical Saraswati ...

A flock of devotees has gathered at the Triveni Sangam, which stands in the Hindu tradition as the confluence of the Ganges (Ganga), the Yamuna, and the Saraswati River, to take holy dips. It makes ...