A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. But at the festival, where ...

ONGC will begin exploratory drilling for hydrocarbons near the river Ganga in Ballia, with a project cost of Rs 85 crore. The ...

How excitement of Hindu pilgrims turned to death and chaos at Maha Kumbh Mela - SPECIAL REPORT: For many Hindu pilgrims, ...

The Mahabharat is one of the two major epics in Sanskrit of ancient India It contains over one lakh couplets and is thrice as long as the Bible However only a fraction of the narration actually deals ...

After a crowd crush killed dozens of people at the world's largest religious gathering, questions have been raised about security and crowd control at massive events in India.

UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who had been toiling hard for the last several months to make the Maha Kumbh a grand success, appeared before media with his eyes full of tears.

Poonam Pandey shared her spiritual experience at the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj, taking the revered Shahi Snan and marvelling at ...

From lazy strolls through ancient alleys to sacred rituals along the Ganges, Varanasi in winter promises memories of a ...

Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims ...

The Calgary Fire Department is investigating after a two-alarm fire started in the partially demolished River Run complex.

It is thought that millions of people attempted to bathe during a celestial event at the Maha Kumbh festival in India A ...

Several people are feared dead and many more injured as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river ...