The History Lecture Series hosted their second installment of “River Histories” on Jan. 29 with a lecture presented by ...

Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at dawn on the first most significant bathing day of the Kumbh Mela festival (also known as Mahakumbh) in the northern ...

Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at dawn ... when we went for bathing," he told me after his dip. "It was very crowded and people were very indisciplined.

Millions of people have taken a holy bath at the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela (also known as Mahakumbh) - described as humanity's biggest gathering - in northern India's Prayagraj city on Monday.

The Ganges River holds immense importance for both Bangladesh and India, providing water for agriculture, livelihoods, and ecosystems across their shared basin. In 1996, the two nations signed the ...

Perhaps there is no such place in the world where crores of people reach without being invited... This is a place of faith and I believe that ever since man has settled on the earth and the Ganges has ...

NEW DELHI — As millions of Indians flock to the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, one needs to look at how the Ganga and Yamuna rivers are doing. Can the river ecosystem take the shock of about 40 ...

Perhaps there is no such place in the world where crores of people reach without ... settled on the earth and the Ganges has started flowing in our country, bathing in it is considered the most ...

Among the Maha Kumbh Mela’s main attractions are the Sadhus – holy men revered for their spiritual virtue and renunciation of worldly pleasure. Adil Bhat India correspondent with a special ...