The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of ...

The ashes of more than 400 cremated Hindus laid in earthen urns at Sonpuri Crematorium, near Old Golimar, and at different ...

He had been sleeping on the river banks with his family when ... To house them all, the government built a temporary city on the banks of the Ganges, with tents, toilets, streets, pontoon bridges ...

Devotees take a holy dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati river As we've been reporting ... over six weeks - in the northern city of Prayagraj. The festival has ...

According to the Indian government, some 400 million people were expected to attend the Maha Kumbh Mela, the most important ...

"2025 Maha Kumbh Mela Ganges River pilgrimage from the ISS at night. The largest human gathering in the world is well lit." The tent city of Prayagraj near the Sangam - the confluence of the Ganga ...

The crush happened as pilgrims tried to jump over police barricades to reach Sangam Nose, the point where India's Ganges river meets Yamuna ... A sprawling tent city was built on the riverbanks ...

As the sun rises over the ancient city of Prayagraj, the streets begin to fill with the energy of a spiritual journey unlike any other. Over 45 days from mid-January, officials in this city in the ...

about 90 miles west of the holy city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, when an estimated 100 million people gather to bathe in holy river waters at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the ...

According to beliefs, a bath at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Sarasvati ... so the authorities erected a temporary city on the river banks – made up of more than 160,000 shelters ...

Watch: Millions take a holy dip on day two of India's Mahakumbh Mela Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at ... in the northern city of Prayagraj.