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

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Channi Anand is based in Jammu, a strategic location not far from the India-Pakistan border that ...

View of devotees at India’s Maha Kumbh Mela after casualties reported Thousands of ash smeared Hindu holy men lead millions ...

However, her tenure was short-lived, lasting only seven days. After protests from several prominent Hindu holy men, Kulkarni was removed from the position. This decision sparked significant ...

Men with tonsured heads sit in rows for initiation into an order of naked Hindu ascetic holy men known as the Naga Sadhus, during the 45-day-long Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India, Saturday ...

Former US president and son of Kenya, Barack Obama, is painted on a matatu bus in Nairobi alongside the late Nelson Mandela ...

Holding tridents, swords, spears and small two-headed drums, ash-smeared Hindu holy men marched and rode chariots at sunrise toward the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati ...

As the third "amrit snan" ended on Basant Panchami on Monday, the Naha Sadhus, who are the main attraction of Maha Kumb.

Whether in ancient vedic literature, or in the heterodox traditions of Buddhism and Jainism and the Hindu epics that followed; whether in the ascetic traditions of yoga, the popular puranas, or the ...

A group of 68 Hindu pilgrims from Pakistan's Sindh province arrived in Prayagraj to take part in the ongoing Mahakumbh. The pilgrims, who traveled on special visas, bathed in the holy confluence ...