The largest mela in the country for centuries, the Kumbh Mela, was a bigger phenomenon this year than ever before. Excitable television channels, smart tour operators, the thriving selfie culture ...

Thousands of sanitation workers in Prayagraj were working tirelessly on Friday to clean up 20,000 tons of waste left behind by the millions of Hindu devotees who attended the Kumbh Mela mega-festival.

It is the first leg of a long pilgrimage by road from Ernakulam in Kerala to the Maha Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh. The distance to the sacred confluence at Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj ...

What did this group of devotees see and experience at Sangam after travelling three days to reach there from Kerala? Prayagraj is the ultimate equalizer, in more ways than one, when a Maha Kumbh ...

We have set a target of 15 days to bring the city back to Ground Zero. Then, we will need to pass the zero-discharge test of the NGT,” Vijay Kiran Anand, the Mela Adhikari, said. According to ...

The Kumbh Mela has various myths and stories surrounding its origins, with some tracing it back to mentions in ancient texts like the Vedas and Puranas, while others believe it began only a couple of ...