Multiple people were feared dead in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious festival in India Wednesday, as tens of ...

The Kumbh festival is named after the celestial pitcher or “kumbha” that held the much coveted “amrita,” the nectar of immortality. In Hindu mythology, during what is known as the Age of Truth, the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday shared highlights from his sacred visit to Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India -- "Have you taken a dip yet?" After arriving in the central Indian city of Prayagraj in late January, almost everyone I spoke to asked whether I had joined the millions of ...

In fact, the gathering is so big, that is visible even from space. NASA astronaut Don Pettit on January 27 shared pictures of a well lit Prayagraj captured from the International Space Station (ISS) ...

Officials in Prayagraj, formerly known as Allahabad ... the banks where the Ganga and Yamuna rivers meet the Saraswati, a mythical, invisible river. Nearly 148 million people have already taken ...

I entered Prayagraj, beating some traffic at the MP-UP state border. I parked my car at ADA colony and hopped on a local e-rickshaw to reach closer to the river bank. Despite the three-wheeler ...

Between 80 million and 100 million people were in Prayagraj on Wednesday ... where the rivers meet, and instead take dips at points along the river closest to them. Despite the appeal, huge ...