At least 30 people have died and 60 have been injured in a stampede at a Hindu festival in northern India. Images from the scene in the city of Prayagraj, in Uttar Pradesh state, show bodies being ...

Here is a look at the sacred Hindu event which is expected to draw more than 400 million visitors over six weeks, making for the largest gathering of humanity in the world. The Kumbh Mela is held ...

A Delhi Court has ordered registration of FIR against journalist Rana Ayyub after a lawyer filed a complaint accusing her of insulting Hindu deities and spreading anti-India sentiment through her ...

The court on Monday granted permission for the police to seize the artworks after a complaint was filed alleging that the paintings, displayed at an art gallery and featuring two Hindu deities ...

The sheer diversity of Hinduism and its inherent contradictions may appear baffling to an outsider. It doesn't tick any of the boxes that would define a religion if we apply the Western definition ...

Washington: Usha Vance became the first Indian-American and Hindu Second Lady after her husband J.D. Vance was sworn in as the 50th Vice President of the US on Monday. She held the Bible in one ...

Hinduism, with its emphasis on inner peace, self-discipline, and moral duty (dharma), encouraged JD to explore faith beyond mere ritual and dogma. Usha’s perspective helped JD see religion not ...

“The ease and enthusiasm with which Hindus in India were able to appropriate that term [Hinduism] shows that they already had a sense that they had this value. It’s just that the term could be applied ...

A 34-year-old Muslim man converted to Hinduism to marry his girlfriend with whom he had an affair for the past 10 years, changing his name from Saddam to Shivshankar, police said on Monday.

Who is a Hindu? This question has bewildered many for centuries. Hinduism has through the years gone through several layers of evolution. As European power grew in the Indian subcontinent in the 16th ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A fire tore through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people ...