BJP leader Kapil Mishra, who will take oath as a Delhi minister today, offered prayers at Jhandewala Devi Mandir in Delhi on.

Mumbai: Municipal Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani has directed the civic officials to increase the number of prayer halls and ...

From Grammy winners to yoga teachers, the ancient art of sacred Hindu music is appealing to masses young and old across the ...

The Malaysia Hindu Sangam (MHS) has flatly rejected any requirements for non-Muslims to obtain Islamic religious authorities’ ...

A superstitious local held a funeral for a snake that died eating its own tail beside a Buddha statue. Khanathip Natip, 60, was about to pray at the altar in his home when he saw the tiny reptile ...

Many millions of people have already bathed in the confluence of rivers at the Kumbh Mela, a six-week-long Hindu celebration of prayer and bathing held every 12 years. Modi, dressed in a saffron ...

You could also use a selection of poems or songs which were personal favourites of the deceased. Reading a funeral prayer is difficult to deliver so it's helpful to practice reading it beforehand out ...

Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Paavalan said: “It is unfortunate that we were allowed into the village only for a funeral. We urge the police to lift such restrictions. While we were allowed in ...

Funeral prayers were held on Saturday morning for a policeman martyred in a firing incident a day earlier in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Upper Kurram tehsil. The policeman, Syed Ashiq Hussain ...

The funeral of Sir Winston Churchill on 30 January 1965 was broadcast live on the BBC and seen around the world. It was the first state funeral of a politician in the century and the biggest ...

The event’s main draw is the thousands of ash-smeared Hindu ascetics who make massive processions toward the confluence to bathe. Indian authorities took more than 16 hours to release casualty ...

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers meet, officials said. By Hari Kumar and Anupreeta Das ...