After Amish Tripathi and Bhavish Aggarwal questioned the reality of sati, liberals are claiming that the ritual was endemic ...

The Kumbh Mela is the world's largest religious gathering, attracting hundreds of millions of Hindu worshippers. Here's how ...

Many of the victims were Hindu pilgrims who were traveling to the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj in northern India, ...

Crowds had swelled because trains carrying Hindu pilgrims to the Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious festival, had been ...

Shares in Dutch brewer Heineken fizzed at the market open on Wednesday, as traders cheered better-than-expected beer sales ...

OITA (Kyodo) -- With an increasing number of Muslims living in Japan, there has been a growing demand for burial plots to conform with their religious beliefs in a country where cremation is the norm.

Coleen Nolan wiped away her tears as she attended her sister Linda Nolan's funeral on Saturday (February 1). The Loose Women panelist, 59, arrived at St Paul's Church in Blackpool to bid a final ...

The four spots where the decks are proposed are above the Calcutta Boating Club and Hindu Burial Ground on the flank leading to Park Circus and above Biswa Banga Mela Prangan and ITC Royal on the ...

Hindu devotees believe taking a dip in the confluence of the rivers during the Maha Kumbh Mela absolves them of sins and brings them salvation from the cycle of life and death.

Krishna's briefing came nearly 18 hours after the stampede and was the first official death toll given by authorities ... single biggest milestone on the Hindu religious calendar.

The six-week Kumbh Mela is the single biggest milestone on the Hindu religious calendar ... Another 36 people were crushed to death in 2013, the last time the festival was staged in the northern ...