The Himalayan mountain range began forming around 40 to 50 million years ago when the Eurasian and Indian plates first began pushing ... that the broader region stretches 2,500 km from the Hindu Kush ...

An Indian diocese has opened its facilities to welcome Hindu pilgrims during a six-week festival in a northern city, hailing it as a “wonderful experience of faith.” Organizers of the millennia-old ...

Their choices had an effect not only on the direction of Indian history but also on the cultures and societies that eventually developed across the subcontinent. Let's make a journey in time and ...

India is poised to become a global economic powerhouse, with reforms such as GST and infrastructure growth driving its rise to the world's fifth-largest economy. ITC Chairman Sanjiv Puri expressed ...

INS Nilgiri, left, along with Submarine Vaghsheer, right, and INS Surat during their commissioning ceremony at a naval dockyard in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday. (Rafiq Maqbool/AP) MUMBAI ...

PRAYAGRAJ, (India): Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India bathed in sacred waters as the Kumbh Mela festival opened on Monday (Jan 13), with organisers expecting 400 million people -- the world's ...

For Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), this year’s Maha Kumbh Mela plays an integral role in their Hindu nationalism agenda. About 80 per cent of the ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela has always been an important symbol of Hinduism, though it was usually not politicized until the recent rise of the idea of India as a Hindu nation. This year’s festival is ...

35 million participate in holy dip, says Uttar Pradesh chief minister Festival expected to boost economy by $30 billion-$35 billion PRAYAGRAJ, India, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Naked Hindu ascetics ...

Hindu devotees and mystics have gathered in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, which is the largest religious congregation on Earth PRAYAGRAJ, India -- Hindu ...

Millions of Pilgrims and Naked, Ash-Smeared Ascetics Take Holy Dips in India's Mega Hindu Festival PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took ...