H undreds of millions of Hindu devotees have bathed in sacred waters, despite concerns over overcrowding and water pollution, ...

The BBC's Samira Hussain reports from the northern Indian city of Prayagraj, where millions of people have already gathered on day one of the Mahakumbh Mela to take a holy dip at Sangam - the ...

Here's how I stumbled upon the world's largest religious gathering, set on the banks of the Ganges River. My overnight train had departed Delhi on time. By dawn, however, with the train already ...

which is being touted as the world's largest religious gathering. Over about the next six weeks, Hindu pilgrims with gather at the confluence of three sacred rivers — the Ganges, the Yamuna and ...

Among the massive crowds at the Kumbh Mela, the world's largest religious gathering in northern India's Prayagraj city, there is a unique group of people called Kalpwasis. They are mostly elderly ...