The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

For millions of Hindu pilgrims at India's millennia-old vast Kumbh Mela festival, the culmination of their journey is ritual ...

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and ...

The estimate is that over 100 million people were gathered to bathe in the Ganges River, in the celebration of Kumbh Mela. Never in history had so many people gathered in one place: 400 million people ...

At least 17 people were killed and many more injured in a stampede at India's Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest ...

incident took place as thousands of worshippers gathered for a sacred ritual bath 1 minute ago ...

12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Sanitation workers walk after cleaning an area on the banks of the Ganges river, where ...

Dozens of worshippers are feared dead and many more injured following a stampede or crush Wednesday at the massive Kumbh Mela ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela festival has shown that the world is one family. This is the message from South Africa’s High ...

India's Maha Kumbh Mela religious festival. DW follows one couple’s spiritual journey to wash away their sins in the Ganges River. Ramesh Chandra promised his wife, Manju, on their wedding day ...

Journeying across India for the pinnacle celebration of the Hindu calendar, Laxmi and her family were sleeping by the ...