Crowds gather at the Triveni Sangam, where the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati intersect. According to Hindu Tradition, bathing at the site washes away all of a devotee's sins and ...

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.

According to the Indian government, some 400 million people were expected to attend the Maha Kumbh Mela, the most important ...

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

Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India yesterday as tens of millions of ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

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 ...

The Ganges. MAP SELLER ... sacred to Hindus and a lifeline to local people who use the river to irrigate their crops, to wash and to travel, yet it is heavily polluted. The pollution affects ...

Crowds gather at the Triveni Sangam, where the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati intersect. According to Hindu Tradition, bathing at the site washes away all of a devotee's sins and ...