Hindu pilgrims chant religious slogans as they leave, during their religious journey to the Amarnath cave on the Pahalgam route, some 90km (55 miles) south of Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, on ...

Indian security personnel stand guard as Hindu pilgrims await their registration ahead of the the annual Amarnath pilgrimage - Copyright AFP Tauseef MUSTAFA Indian ...

MUZAFFARNAGAR, India (RNS) — Muslim shop owners are shutting their businesses along the Kanwar Yatra (pilgrimage) route rather than risk attacks. MUZAFFARNAGAR, India (RNS) — Vakeel Ahmad was stirring ...

NEW DELHINEW DELHI — India is investigating an attack in which suspected militants fired at a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing nine and injuring 33, officials said ...

The Mahamagham is also being branded as Kerala’s Kumbh Mela. The Kumbh Mela is a massive Hindu pilgrimage on sacred rivers, ...

Thousands of Hindu devotees began their journey Wednesday for an annual pilgrimage through the high Himalayas in Indian-controlled Kashmir amid heavy security in the Muslim-majority region. The ...

Today we think of Hinduism as an eternal religion, somehow unchanged since the days of the Vedas in the 2nd millennium BCE. Indeed, much of the marketing around the 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela has presented ...

SURYAPET, India (AP) — Chants of “Om Linga, Om Linga” resonated as barefoot Hindu pilgrims, many balancing offering-filled baskets and clay pitchers on their heads, climbed more than 100 steps to a ...

LUCKNOW, India -- A helicopter carrying Hindu pilgrims crashed on Sunday in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing seven people on board, officials said. The helicopter was headed to ...

Hindus began a vast month-long pilgrimage in contested Indian Kashmir on Thursday, with many of the faithful starting from near the site where a deadly April attack triggered conflict with Pakistan.