Ash-smeared naked Hindu holy men charged into India's most sacred river Ganges at dawn on the first most significant bathing ...
More than nine million people took a "holy dip" at the confluence of three sacred rivers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The stampede happened when pilgrims rushing to a sacred river confluence tried to jump barricades erected for a procession of holy men, Uttar Pradesh state’s top elected official, Yogi Adityanath, ...
The men, with matted dreadlocks and crowns of marigolds, chanted praise for Hindu deity Lord Shiva and were escorted to the ...