The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

Over a dozen people are dead and many more injured in a stampede Wednesday as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to bathe in ...

Journeying across India for the pinnacle celebration of the Hindu calendar, Laxmi and her family were sleeping by the ...

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

Naga Sadhus, or naked Hindu holy men smeared with ash return after ritualistic holy dips at Sangam, the confluence of the ...

Naga Sadhus or Naked Hindu holy men gather for taking dips at Sangam, the confluence of three sacred rivers the Yamuna, the ...

A deadly stampede on Wednesday hit India's Kumbh Mela, a vast Hindu festival held by the banks of the Ganges river that 400 million pilgrims are expected to visit over ...

Swarming throngs of devotees bathed in rivers at the world's biggest religious gathering in India on Thursday, undeterred by ...

The festival — site of a stampede on Wednesday — is held every 12 years at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers. Hindus take a series of ritual baths at ...

Thousands of devotees jostle behind bamboo fences to get a glimpse of the grand procession of the naked, ash-smeared and ...

A boater passes between cargo ships on the harbour, in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 16, 2024. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian ...