Millions of people in South Asia are celebrating Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, by smearing each other with brightly colored powder, dancing to festive music and feasting on traditional sweets pr ...

Thursday (March 13) marks the start of Holi, the colorful festival welcoming in springtime. But it’s not just for Hindus ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India — The traditional colorful Indian fabric worn by women is ubiquitous to the world's largest religious gathering in northern India's Prayagraj city, where millions of Hindus ...

When the first power loom began operating in Ichalkaranji in 1904, no one could have predicted that this small textile town in Maharashtra would evolve into an automation powerhouse. Today, in ...

Flowing pants, dresses and maxi skirts are in DISSH’s DNA, with the brand also donating and redistributing any out-of-season stock to Thread Together, who help redistribute clothing to people in need.

At school we were taught – in textbooks influenced by British historians – that Jainism and Buddhism were contemporaneous revolts against Brahmin-dominated Hinduism. The religions had largely ...

Women wore bright clothes and flowers in their braided hair. Tumeric, an Indian cooking staple but also essential in Hindu rituals, was made into a paste and smeared on the temple steps and walls ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A devotee holds a trident, a symbol of Hindu god Shiva, as she climbs the steps of the Lingamanthula Swamy ...

DW's Mahima Kapoor joins millions of Hindu devotees for the Maha Kumbh Mela, roaming alone through the world's largest religious gathering. On the day of my departure from New Delhi, I am sick.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The shadow of a pilgrim falls on a sari held up to dry during Maha Kumbh festival, in Prayagraj, India. (AP ...

RJD chief Lalu Prasad blamed Saturday night’s stampede at the New Delhi railway station on a failure to manage the crowd that was heading to the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayargraj, and courted controversy ...

Tulsi Gabbard, the newly appointed Director of National Intelligence (DNI), is making headlines for her Hindu name, with many wondering about her connection to the Indian origins. Ms Gabbard ...