Celebrities from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin to US actress Dakota Johnson have reportedly joined millions of pilgrims at ...

This year’s Maha Kumbh Mela is particularly significant. The alignment of stars and planets is said to be the same as when drops of celestial nectar fell on the earth.

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

The Ganges River dolphin, scientifically named Platanista gangetica gangetica, is one of the most unique and charismatic freshwater creatures found in the mighty Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna river ...

Authorities say at least 30 people have died and a further 60 were injured in a crowd crush at the massive Kumbh Mela festival. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered hi ...

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

Many family members of deceased Hindus whose ashes were kept in urns for years with them or at the Hindu cremation ground (Shamshan Ghat), in Old Golimar until they could be taken to India for ...

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 two decades ago that he would take her to ...

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

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

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