Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The shadow of a pilgrim falls on a sari held up to dry during Maha Kumbh festival, in Prayagraj, India. (AP ...

MORE than 150 members of Colchester’s Bangladeshi community celebrated a ‘Nabanna’ festival this month with ... in West Bengal and Tripura in India. For the Bangladeshi community in ...

MORE than 150 members of Colchester’s Bangladeshi community celebrated a ‘Nabanna’ festival this month with ... in West Bengal and Tripura in India. For the Bangladeshi community in ...

The six-week Kumbh Mela is the single biggest milestone on the Hindu religious calendar, and officials said around 500 million devotees have already visited the festival since it began last month.

It was not immediately clear what triggered the panic at the Maha Kumbh festival where devotees had congregated from across India to bathe at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the ...

The second edition of India Paddle Festival, an international Stand-Up Paddle (SUP) event, will be held in Mangaluru for three days from March 7. Organised by the Surfing Swami Foundation and ...

Many of the victims were Hindu pilgrims who were traveling to the Maha Kumbh festival in northern India, according to Delhi’s caretaker chief minister. A relative of one of the deceased said an ...

The festival also sees millions of Hindu women taking a dip in the waters, often draped in a sari. Saris have remained traditional dresses for women in India and other South Asian countries ...

Hindus believe that bathing at the confluence of the rivers will cleanse them of their sins and release them from the cycle of rebirth. The festival also sees millions of Hindu women taking a dip in ...