India, the seventh-largest country in the world, is a vibrant land of immense cultural, traditional, and historical diversity ...

India's sacred rivers, including the Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, Godavari, Krishna, and Kaveri, are revered as goddesses and ...

Varanasi, one of the world's oldest inhabited cities continues to be a spiritual city nestled on the banks of Ganga. Monsoon ...

Sacred sites are increasingly popular as the government promotes pilgrimages and Instagram influencers help make religion ...

head into the holy rivers at dawn. Ava Poonawala, a resident of Mumbai, India, made the journey not as a pilgrim, but to "witness the world’s largest religious event in our lifetime," she ...

At least 29 people were killed Tuesday in a stampede on the banks of a river in southern India where huge crowds had gathered for the start of a once-in-a-century religious festival. July 14 ...

Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India ... the Hindu religion, tourism and crowd management. A vast ground along the banks of the rivers has been ...

Photojournalist Ankit Srinivas brings you some sights from the festival: The devout will bathe at Sangam - the confluence of India's most sacred Ganges river with the Yamuna river and the mythical ...

India's holy Ganges begins as a crystal clear river high in the icy Himalayas ... the city of Prayagraj is currently hosting a huge religious festival called the Kumbh Mela, where up to 150 ...

LUCKNOW, India — At least 46 people, most of them children, have drowned while bathing in rivers and ponds swollen by recent floods during the observance of a Hindu religious festival celebrated ...