SURYAPET, India (AP) — Chants of “Om Linga, Om Linga” resonated as barefoot Hindu pilgrims, many balancing offering-filled ...

At least five devotees died and 40 others were injured Tuesday after a wooden platform collapsed during a religious gathering in northern India, an official said. The incident happened in Baghpat ...

The magic of the mountains came alive through pictures, paintings and anecdotes at an auditorium in central ... border villages that were on the Pakistani side but became part of India, literally ...

SAYEDA ZEINAB, Syria—Ali Rashid, a pilgrim from Iraq, carefully spread a red religious banner over the gilded mausoleum in the shrine of Sayeda Zeinab, a holy place in Shiite Islam that once ...

A person who has relinquished the religion should be governed by the Indian Succession Act in case of inheritance. But, though I have renounced the religion, I am still governed by the Muslim ...

Ratlam-born Sharma, who is pursuing second-year master's interior design studies at the Department of Family and Community Resource Management (FCRM), mastered the art of Indian folk paintings.

Deadly stampedes are relatively common around Indian religious festivals, where large crowds gather in small areas with shoddy infrastructure and few safety measures. In July at least 116 people ...

Deadly crowd accidents are frequent occurrence at Indian religious festivals, including the Kumbh Mela, which attracts tens of millions of devotees every 12 years to the city of Prayagraj in Uttar ...

In a showcase of India’s growing religious tourism, an estimated 450 million people are gathering over six weeks in northern India in a celebration of ritual bathing where two holy rivers meet.

Dozens of people have been killed and many others were injured in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious festival in northern India, police said. “Thirty devotees have unfortunately ...

At least 30 people have died and another 60 have been injured by a stampede at the massive Maha Kumbh Mela festival in northern India ... of the world's largest religious festival.

A pre-dawn stampede at the world's largest religious gathering killed at least 30 people in India on Wednesday, with many more injured after a surging crowd spilled out of a police cordon and ...