Organisers of India's Kumbh Mela have prepared to host a staggering 400 million devotees at the six-week Hindu festival that ...

Over the past two decades, holy men in India have gone on dozens of fasts demanding governments honour their promise to revive the polluted Ganges, a river revered by Hindus. The recent death of ...

Over 6 weeks from January 13, 350-400 million Hindu pilgrims will converge on the Ganges. Many will bathe in its waters to ...

You should draw from the ancient texts to the stories of the gods to the holy sites along the banks of the Ganges River. Topics could include: Gain a basic understanding of Hinduism through the ...

The sacred city of Varanasi, on the River Ganges. Hindus visit to bathe in the water to wash their sins away One of the most important pilgrimages in Hinduism is Kumbh Mela. This is the largest ...

A Hindu holy man prays sitting next to an earthmover moving sand on the banks of the Ganges river.(AP: Rajesh Kumar Singh) "The mela can be a very stressful environment for the personnel ...

Such mass bathing in the Ganges has been recorded for more than 2,500 years. For many Hindus, a visit to the holy city of Varanasi precedes their pilgrimage to the Kumbh Mela, a city located about ...

The most famous Hindu pilgrimage is the Kumbh Mela, which takes place at the River Ganges in India. Up to 40 million people come to purify themselves in the water, the biggest gathering of people ...

GUWAHATI A team of wildlife conservationists tagged the almost-blind Ganges river dolphin for the first time. A healthy male river dolphin from Kulsi, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, was tagged ...