The occasion: the start of Diwali. The five-day celebration is referred to as the Festival of Lights, as those who celebrate illuminate their homes in an abundance of candles and lanterns.

Residents of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams' ancestral village in Gujarat's Mehsana district are gearing up for Diwali-like festivities on Wednesday morning to celebrate her scheduled return to ...

Bhopal erupted in celebrations after India's win in the Champions Trophy, with spontaneous festivities mirroring Diwali. Residents swarmed the streets, lighting fireworks, waving flags ...

The village of Ardsley held its fourth Diwali celebration on Saturday, Nov. 9. Community members gathered in the gymnasium at Ardsley Middle School that afternoon in honor of the Hindu festival of ...

Students clad in brightly colored Indian garments received bindis, red dots on their foreheads, as they entered the Boston University Center for Computing and Data Sciences to celebrate Diwali.

NEW DELHI, Nov 1 (Reuters) - New Delhi topped global pollution charts on Friday, partly due to revellers defying a ban on firecrackers to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.

Here’s how it works. As millions of people around the world celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams radioed home a message of festive cheer. "I want to ...

Diwali is derived from the word “Deepavali,” which means “a row of lights.” Celebrants light rows of traditional clay oil lamps outside their homes to symbolize the victory of light over ...

Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India — and for Hindus in particular. It is celebrated across faiths by more than a billion people in the world's most populous nation and ...

This year Diwali, known as the Festival of Lights, will take place in the U.S. on Thursday, October 31. (The full festival is five days long, and Diwali falls on the third day.) The Indian ...

For the first time, New York City’s public school students will have Friday off to observe Diwali, a holiday celebrated worldwide by Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains. The new school holiday ...