The festival is a tribute to the divine craftsmanship of Lord Vishwakarma and acknowledges the importance of hard work, ...

Balinese Hindu devotees bathed in the holy springs at the water temple of Tirta Empul on Sunday during the Banyu Pinaruh ...

As the rickety bus barely rounded another corner, an audible gasp went through the passengers. A recent blizzard had taken out the road between the high Himalayan villages of Ranipauwa and ...

Guwahati: The dwindling Hindu population of Bangladesh celebrated Saraswati Puja peacefully to worship the deity of wisdom, ...

Siddharth Chopra, brother of Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra Jonas, tied the knot with actor Neelam Upadhyaya at a traditional ...

Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

Jaya Ekadashi is an important Hindu fasting day observed on the eleventh day (Ekadashi) of the Shukla Paksha (waxing phase of ...

For millions of Hindu pilgrims at India's millennia-old vast Kumbh Mela festival, the culmination of their journey is ritual ...

Ritual bathing at the confluence of large rivers has long held special significance in Hindu rituals. Sangam, where the Ganga ...

A video spread online shows an annual stone-pelting ritual in northern India, contrary to claims by social media posts that ...

India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a ritual river dip on Wednesday at the world's largest religious ...

Thousands of devotees jostle behind bamboo fences to get a glimpse of the grand procession of the naked, ash-smeared and ...