A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. At the Maha Kumbh festival, ...

Witnesses described a mass of people rushing to take a pre-dawn dip at the confluence of the three sacred rivers.

Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, joined by Senior Assistant Editor Soumya Pillai, discusses factors contributing to Yamuna’s ...

Hindu devotees and mystics have gathered in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, which is the ...

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

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

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

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi on Monday accused the BJP of committing "water terrorism" against the people of Delhi by ...

Police say at least 30 people were killed and many more injured in a stampede at the world's largest religious gathering as ...

A tentative sense of calm prevails over a slum cluster in Yamuna Khadar on the floodplains in north-east Delhi’s Shastri Park. The area residents anticipate a demolition drive soon after the ...

At least 30 people have been killed and dozens more injured in crowd crushes at the Maha Kumbh Mela in India, where millions ...