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

A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. At the Maha Kumbh festival, ...

A Delhi court has instructed the city’s police to register a First Information Report (FIR) against journalist Rana Ayyub ...

For many Hindu pilgrims, bathing at the festival where three holy rivers meet is the spiritual journey of a lifetime. But as ...

After a stampede at Maha Kumbh killed at least 30, leaders downplayed the tragedy, attributing it to divine will, while ...

As an offspring of Aditi, a Vedic entity representing infinity, Surya is one of the twelve Adityas, which also include Indra, ...

More than 10,000 devotees visited BAPS Hindu Mandir in Abu Dhabi on Sunday to celebrate its first 'Patotsav', the anniversary ...

Tulsi Gabbard’s father, Mike Gabbard, also pivoted from anti-gay activism to a career in local politics in Hawaii. He mounted ...

“God will not be cruel with us ... Last October, the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, an apex body of Hindu seers and religious leaders, had announced that it would not allow “non-Sanatani ...

Millions of people have taken a holy bath at the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela (also ... in a mythological story about a fight between the gods and demons over a Kumbh (a pitcher) of nectar that ...

Others prefer two vertical white ones with a red or yellow stripe in the center. Then there is the large red vertical mark, or names of various Hindu gods written in Hindi and English. Hindu priest ...

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of immortality from demons. Hindus believe that a few drops fell in the ...