The festival that attracts over 400 million people takes place where Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers meet.

India’s Maha Kumbh Mela gets under way, with thousands of Hindu devotees lining up to bathe in the waters of river they ...

Millions of people have taken a holy bath at the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela (also ... the devout will bathe at Sangam - the ...

Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims are taking dips in sacred rivers in the first of a series ...

Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at dawn on the first most significant bathing ...

A procession of India’s most important sects on Tuesday opened the first sacred bathing of ... gathering to take a ‘holy bath ...

With the arrival of a large number of devotees from India and abroad continuing in the ongoing Mahakumbh 2025 in Sangam city ...

Millions of people have taken a holy bath at the Hindu festival of Kumbh ... bathe at Sangam - the confluence of India's most sacred Ganges river with the Yamuna river and the mythical Saraswati.

Nearly 15 million Hindus, six times the number expected, took a dip in freezing waters seeking absolution of their sins on the first day of a six-week festival in India expected to draw the world ...