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World’s Largest Human Gathering Begins in India

The New York Times · 1d

The World’s Largest Human Gathering Begins in India

About 400 million Hindu pilgrims from around the globe are expected to bathe in and around the Ganges in the religion’s biggest display of unity.

U.S. News & World Report · 2d

Factbox-How Is India Managing Its Maha Kumbh Festival, the World's Largest Gathering?

India's Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is set to be the world's largest gathering of humanity, with 400 million visitors expected at the six-week event that began this week in the northern city of Prayagraj.

India's Kumbh Mela Hindu Festival Sees World's Largest Gathering Of Humanity

Hindu holy men and devotees gather on the second day of India's giant and millenia-old Kumbh Mela festival. Organisers expect 400 million people to attend the event, which began on January 13 and will run until February 26.

India, Kumbh Mela and Hindu festival

BBC on MSN · 3d

Millions start bathing in holy rivers at India's biggest Hindu festival

Millions of people have taken a holy bath at the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela (also known as Mahakumbh) - described as humanity's biggest gathering - in northern India's Prayagraj city on Monday.

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India: Millions flock to Kumbh Mela for first sacred bath in India

Millions of Hindu pilgrims gathered on Tuesday at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and Sarasvati rivers to take part in the first holy bath of the Kumbh Mela, the world's largest religious gathering.

Channel NewsAsia Singapore · 1d

India's Maha Kumbh festival sees 15 million people take holy dip on first day

Nearly 15 million Hindus, six times the number expected, took a dip in freezing waters seeking absolution of their sins on Monday (Jan 13), the first day of India's festival that could draw the world's largest single gathering of humanity.

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Millions of pilgrims and naked, ash-smeared ascetics take holy dips in India’s mega Hindu festival

Naked Hindu ascetics and pilgrims are taking holy dips in sacred rivers in the first major bathing day of the Maha Kumbh ...

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Ash-smeared holy men lead India bathing spectacle

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

Channel NewsAsia Singapore3d

India kicks off massive Hindu festival for 400 million pilgrims

The holy festival of Maha Kumbh Mela is celebrated once every 12 years, with devotees taking a dip in the waters where the ...

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The world’s largest gathering: how India plans to keep 400 million pilgrims safe at the Maha Kumbh Mela festival

The sheer scale of the Hindu festival makes it a disaster waiting to happen. From new underwater drones to AI surveillance, ...

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PHOTO COLLECTION: India Maha Kumbh Festival

Swami Bhupender Giri, centre, Naga Sadhu of Niranjani Akhara, arrives for ritualistic dip at Sangam, the confluence of the ...

San Francisco Examiner2d

India opens giant Hindu festival for 400 million pilgrims

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

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