Millions start bathing in holy rivers at India's biggest Hindu festival ... levels in the Ganges were 1,400 times more than ...

They will lead the dawn charge into the river waters on the most auspicious bathing dates. The massive congregation is also an occasion for Uttar Pradesh's local Hindu nationalist government to ...

For many Hindus, a visit to the holy city of Varanasi ... Watch how pilgrims find solitude during the ritual bathing in the Ganges River. "Even though there's millions of people around here ...

Early in 2007 the Ganges' worsening state made headlines around the world when Hindu holy men ... shrines and bathing ghats (steps leading down to the river) along its banks.

Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in ... religious piety and ritual bathing – and a logistical challenge of staggering proportions – is held at the site where the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical ...

PHOTO GALLERY : Indian Hindu pilgrims ... holy Sangam -- the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers -- during the auspicious bathing day of Makar Sankranti at the Kumbh ...

The festival draws millions of Hindu pilgrims and spiritual seekers from India and across the globe. Millions are taking a dip in the sacred Ganges river on the first major bathing day of Kumbh ...

SIMRAN: Rivers are holy places for Hindus and we believe bathing in them removes bad karma. The most famous bathing ceremony is the Kumbh Mela. It takes place in Indiai n the River Ganges.

Below us, between the bridge and the bathing area, was Sector 4, where the 16 major akharas, Hindu religious ... bathes in the Ganges at the Kumbh Mela. “It is a sacred river,” he said ...

The Ganges river in India is more than 2,500km long and has the most populated river basin in the world. Hundreds of millions of people and a huge range of wildlife rely on the river Ganges. But ...

The Environment Ministry on March 3, commemorated as World Wildlife Day, released a report by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), a Ministry body, that said there are 6,324 Ganges river ...