Devotees have travelled from across India and beyond to take part in elaborate rituals, prayers and religious processions with elephants, as well as horse-back parades and chariots. The mass Hindu ...

Prayagraj (India) (AFP) – A deadly stampede on Wednesday hit India's Kumbh Mela, a vast Hindu festival held by the banks of the Ganges river that 400 million pilgrims are expected to visit over ...

A stampede during a religious procession to a hilltop temple on Jan. 25, 2005, killed at least 258 people and injured 200 in western India, near the village of Wai, some 150 miles (241 kilometers ...

Stampede and blaze during a religious procession in 2005 A stampede during a religious procession to a hilltop temple on 25 January, 2005, killed at least 258 people and injured 200 in western ...

COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

As well as bathing rituals, Kumbh Mela also features spiritual discussion, religious processions, prayers and cultural performances. Religious organisations set up a number of temporary camps ...

Although election rallies and religious processions cause traffic, only protest rallies are banned. Controlling traffic is a civic matter. The government’s rationale that protests held at a ...

Jorhat (Assam): Amid protest against a religious procession led by nude Jain monks in Assam's Jorhat, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said any attempt to obstruct the community's devout ...

Sarma's comments came on the backdrop of protests by a group of people in Jorhat town following the religious procession by the Jain community on Wednesday.