Apart from being one of the biggest spiritual congregations, Maha Kumbh has been a trade hotspot for many centuries. What are ...

A fire tore through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people in India’s ...

The high-end and unique cars, ranging from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 20 crore, mostly belong to older saints from prominent akharas and were spotted during the 'peshwai', when the akharas arrive at the Maha Ku ...

A large number of youngsters are participating in Maha Kumbh 2025, effortlessly blending social media with spirituality. This ...

A video claiming to show Bill Gates at the Mahakumbh Mela has been debunked. The footage is old, circulating since December 2024.

In an interview, Sadhvi Harsha clarified that she has never claimed to be a true saint. She is an Instagram influencer and a ...

As the Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 unfolds in Prayagraj, memories of my experience at Ujjain’s Simhasth Kumbh Mela in 2016 resurface ...

It’s late evening in the city of Prayagraj and the roadside vendors selling snacks are packing up their wares to shut for the ...

A little farther, Nagavalli Gupta reads a prayer book while her husband sits cross-legged wearing a woolen cap, wrapped in a ...

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

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

The millennia-old Kumbh Mela, a show of religious piety and ritual bathing -- and a logistical challenge of staggering proportions -- is held in the northern city of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh state.