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

Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at dawn on the first most significant bathing day of the Kumbh Mela festival (also known as Mahakumbh) in the northern ...

The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. The photo of a Naga Sadhu — a Hindu ascetic — at the confluence ...

By Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took holy dips in sacred river waters in the ...

More than nine million people took a "holy dip" at the confluence of three sacred rivers. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Hindu ascetics and pilgrims have taken to the freezing waters at the confluence of India's sacred rivers, in the first major bathing day of the Maha Kumbh festival, the largest religious ...

Hindu devotees and mystics have gathered in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj for ... India -- Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women have gathered in India's northern city of ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Thousands of devotees jostle behind bamboo fences to get a glimpse of the grand procession of the ...

Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river ... we met Chitiya Ahirvar who is visiting from her village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.