India and France are reportedly in advanced talks for a sale of the Indian-made Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launcher system (MBLR) — the first time Paris will buy any weapon from New Delhi. The Pinaka ...

Men have their tongue and cheeks pierced with metal rods during Thaipusam, an annual festival celebrated in honor of Hindu ...

Some tourists and influencers behave badly at religious sites and during religious festivals just to create content.

At least 15 people were killed and many more injured on Wednesday in Prayagraj, northern India, during a stampede at the giant Kumbh Mela Hindu pilgrimage. Held every 12 years, the gathering ...

In the 1800s, the Nattukottai Chettiar people established a shrine for Lord Murugan near a waterfall at Penang’s Botanical ...

A rare legal effort to secure rights for atheists and nonbelievers was quashed last month by Indonesia's Constitutional Court, which ruled that a citizen must profess a faith, even a minority one, on ...

A rare legal effort to secure rights for atheists and non-believers was quashed last month by Indonesia's Constitutional Court, which ruled that a citizen must profess a faith, even a minority one, on ...

Our God came to us first. A Malaysian Hindu devotee with his back pierced with hooks makes his way towards the Batu Caves ...

President Donald Trump has made a plea to bring more religion into US society in a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on Thursday, December 6. I really believe you can't be happy ...

Ritual bathing at the confluence of large rivers has long held special significance in Hindu rituals. Sangam, where the Ganga ...

The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of immortality from demons. Hindus believe that a few drops fell in the cities ...