About 400 million Hindu pilgrims from around the globe are expected to bathe in and around the Ganges in the religion’s ...

The head of the Panchayati Niranjani Akhada, Mahamandaleshwar Premanand Puri Ji Maharaj, says that the Naga tradition is a ...

Varanasi, with its rich heritage and serene rivers like the Ganges, Varuna, and Nand, offers spiritual solace, cultural ...

The sheer scale of the Hindu festival makes it a disaster waiting to happen. From new underwater drones to AI surveillance, ...

Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj on ...

DW follows one couple’s spiritual journey to wash away their sins in the Ganges River. Ramesh Chandra promised his wife, Manju, on their wedding day two decades ago that he would take her to ...

Naked Hindu ascetics and pilgrims are taking holy dips in sacred rivers in the first major bathing day of the Maha Kumbh ...

A separate administrative district has been set up just for the event, with a sea of 160,000 tents erected along the banks of the Ganges river for devotees to live in. Hindu devotees leave after ...

Thousands or people are seen bathing in Uttar Pradesh, India on January 13 for the Mahakumbh Mela festival, held once every ...

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 ...