Hindu devotees made the first pilgrimage to Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh state, India on Jan. 14-15, 2019 for the beginning of the Kumbh Mela festival. Every year, the Kumbh Mela consists of a series of ...

Also, this will be the first time the Kumbh will be captured live for pilgrims on virtual reality (VR) headsets. The digital leap is the brainchild of the Prayagraj Mela Authority. “We have made ...

Kumbh Mela festival: The world's largest religious festival, India's Kumbh Mela begins in Prayagraj on January 15. The 49-day festival attracts millions of Hindu pilgrims to the sacred waters of the ...

New Delhi (India), Feb 23 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the Kumbh Mela 2019 at Prayagraj is a kind of social reformation. Prime Minister Modi was speaking at an event ...

Starting Tuesday, tens of millions of Hindu devotees in India will gather to wash their sins away on the banks of the Ganges River in a festival known as the Kumbh Mela. The tradition, which dates ...

This year’s Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage, was the biggest and most expensive ever. But some holy men said the difference from prior years was not a positive one. “I give it a zero,” said one. Hindu ...

Referring to the theme of ‘Swachch Kumbh’, to Kumbh Mela officer Vijay Kiran Anand said over one lakh toilets had been made functional in the mela area, 17,000 dustbins were placed at various points ...

According to tradition that reaches back to the foundations of Hinduism, a ritual dip in the Ganges during Kumbh Mela holds the promise of washing away one’s sins. People from all walks of life in ...