SIMRAN: Diwali is the Hindu Festival of Light. CROWD: Five four three two one… Switch on! SIMRAN: Diwali celebrates light over darkness and the hope that good will happen. So diwa meaning light ...

It is often referred to as the "festival of festivals" and a major event in the Hindu calendar. Hindu pilgrims arrive to take a dip in Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical ...

NEW DELHI--Indians celebrated Diwali on Monday as bright earthen oil lamps and dazzling, colorful lights lit up homes and streets across the country to mark the Hindu festival that symbolizes the ...

The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

Lastly the festival of Lohri invokes many legends, the most popular linked to Punjab’s Robinhood Dulla Bhatti, an outlaw, during Akbar’s reign who saved the honour of two Hindu brahmin girls ...

More than seven people were killed and around 10 injured in a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India on Wednesday, ...

At least 30 people have been killed and dozens more injured in crowd crushes at the Maha Kumbh Mela in India, where millions ...

Thousands of Hindu holy men have been arriving in Prayagraj to participate in the Kumbh Mela festival Millions of people have taken a holy bath at the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela (also known as ...

Another 68,000 light-emitting diode (LED ... when everyone takes a plunge in the river together." The festival is rooted in Hindu mythology, a battle between deities and demons for control ...