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, ...

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 ...

The Delhi Police on Tuesday informed a court that an FIR has been lodged against journalist Rana Ayyub after a lawyer accused her of spreading “anti-India sentiment” and “insulting” Hindu deities on ...

In the quiet town of Benoni, Dirk Mortier, is busy with his unique labour of love – designing and building Hindu prayer shrines and personalised kavadies. Mortier said his business “Shanti’s ...

India’s Hindu festival of Maha Kumbh Mela, which has drawn millions of devotees to a confluence of sacred rivers in the northern Uttar Pradesh state, is mired in political controversy after ...