India’s environmental authorities have raised concerns over dangerously high levels of faecal bacteria in the Ganges river at Prayagraj, particularly during the Maha Kumbh Mela – a major religious ...

The festival is a series of ritual baths by Hindu sadhus, or holy men, and other pilgrims at the confluence of three sacred rivers that dates to at least medieval times. Hindus believe that the ...

PRAYAGRAJ – Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the confluence of sacred rivers in northern India on Tuesday, in the first of a series of ...

‘You need a bath after the bath’: World’s largest religious gathering wraps up after 600 million devotees take holy dip New Delhi (CNN) — Hundreds of millions of Hindu devotees have bathed in sacred ...