CONTAINS NUDITY Throngs of naked worshippers converged on a river for a religious bathing festival in India. Footage shows ...

India began on Monday its Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, which is expected to draw more than 400 million ...

India's Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is set to be the world's largest gathering of humanity, with 400 million ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, or Hindu pitcher festival, begins Monday in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj. Officials expect at least 400 million people to visit Prayagraj over the next 45 days.

Officials had expected the first ritual dip to draw 2.5 million visitors, but the State Chief Minister says 15 million ...

The Kumbh originates in a Hindu belief that four drops of the nectar of immortality fell to earth, one in Prayagraj, during a ...

Scores of naked Hindu ascetics smeared in holy ash charged into the water of holy rivers in northern India yesterday, ...

Hindu ascetics, from crowd of 35 million devotees attending, take dip in freezing waters, seeking absolution from sins.

The most propitious of these days occur in cycles of 12 years during a festival called the Maha Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival. The festival is a series of ritual baths by Hindu sadhus ...

Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India began bathing in sacred waters on Monday as the Kumbh Mela festival opened, with ...

Touted as an event for spiritual purificationin Hinduism, Kumbh Mela takes place approximately every 12 years at four ...

Millions of Hindu devotees and mystics have gathered in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, ...