The largest religious gathering in the world is taking place in India from Jan. 13 to Feb. 26. It is a significant test for ...

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Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world’s largest religious congregation ...

Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India on Wednesday as tens of millions of Hindus gathered to take a dip in sacred river waters on the most ...

That is around 200 times the 2 million pilgrims who were in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage last year. The festival started on Jan. 13 with tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics ...

The unfathomable scale of the world's largest religious festival in India overshadows many nations in size -- and for the ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India, (Reuters) – Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India yesterday, police sources and a Reuters witness said, as tens of ...

With the festival funnelling religious tourism on a ... Brazil's Rio Carnival with some seven million participants or the Muslim hajj in Saudi Arabia with nearly two million.

OPPOSITION PARTIES BLAME "MISMANAGEMENT" The Hindu festival is expected to draw some 400 million people overall, according to officials, compared with the Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia which drew ...

Opposition parties blame “mismanagement” The Hindu festival is expected to draw some 400 million people overall, according to officials, compared with the Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia which ...