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While many now recognize the scientific explanation for a solar eclipse, the phenomenon is still marked with tradition and sometimes suspicion in Hindu-majority India.
A Hindu man in Britain lost his court battle Friday for the legal right to be cremated in a traditional Hindu open-air funeral pyre.
A devout Hindu said Wednesday he was confident that a British court will rule that laws preventing him from being cremated on an open-air funeral pyre in "a sacrament of fire" are a breach of his human rights.
Mumbai is always colorful and dynamic but if you're lucky enough to be in town for one of the city's major festivals you'll witness Mumbai erupting into glorious Technicolor.
Six members of a Muslim family were burned alive Sunday in a fire at their house in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
A Maoist group has claimed responsibility for the killing of a Hindu leader, whose death sparked a wave of Hindu-Christian riots in southern India.
A stampede at a hilltop temple in western India killed more than 147 people and wounded 55 others who had gathered to celebrate the start of a religious holiday on Tuesday, police said.
At least 125 people were killed and 50 injured when thousands of pilgrims stampeded at a Hindu temple in the historic town of Jodhpur in western India
The remote east Indian state of Orissa, historically a tinderbox of Hindu-Christian tensions, erupted in violence this week after gunmen killed a Hindu leader and mobs burned churches in retaliation.
South India's sun beats down on a long line of trucks wending to the Bay of Bengal. In the back of these trucks, giant, brightly painted statues of the Hindu god Ganesha are waiting to be dropped in the nearby ocean.
While many now recognize the scientific explanation for a solar eclipse, the phenomenon is still marked with tradition and sometimes suspicion in Hindu-majority India.
A Hindu man in Britain lost his court battle Friday for the legal right to be cremated in a traditional Hindu open-air funeral pyre.
A devout Hindu said Wednesday he was confident that a British court will rule that laws preventing him from being cremated on an open-air funeral pyre in "a sacrament of fire" are a breach of his human rights.
Mumbai is always colorful and dynamic but if you're lucky enough to be in town for one of the city's major festivals you'll witness Mumbai erupting into glorious Technicolor.
Six members of a Muslim family were burned alive Sunday in a fire at their house in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
A Maoist group has claimed responsibility for the killing of a Hindu leader, whose death sparked a wave of Hindu-Christian riots in southern India.
A stampede at a hilltop temple in western India killed more than 147 people and wounded 55 others who had gathered to celebrate the start of a religious holiday on Tuesday, police said.
At least 125 people were killed and 50 injured when thousands of pilgrims stampeded at a Hindu temple in the historic town of Jodhpur in western India
The remote east Indian state of Orissa, historically a tinderbox of Hindu-Christian tensions, erupted in violence this week after gunmen killed a Hindu leader and mobs burned churches in retaliation.
Hindu Nationalists and Muslim hardliners in the Indian state have brought sectarian feelings to a boil. Is India facing a new faith-based conflagration?
Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives -- including his wife and daughter -- were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people
At least 133 people were killed in a stampede Sunday as panicked worshippers tried to flee a crowded mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India, officials said.
A stampede at a mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India killed at least 145 people Sunday, officials said.
The Nepalese government sent two teams to northern India on Friday to prepare to bring back the bodies of 36 pilgrims killed when their bus plunged into a river, officials said.
Taking advantage of new technology and the carbon-credit market, India's religious institutions are becoming leading preachers of environmentalism
Deepak Chopra has something to say about Hindu opposition to Mike Myers' new movie: Get over it
A little-known group called Indian Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's near-simultaneous bomb attacks that killed 63 people in the northwest Indian city of Jaipur. It also warned of more attacks in the country.
Whether we are actively religious or not, religious belief permeates the very fabric of our existence. Namely, it influences -- if not directly shapes -- our legal systems; and therefore our constitutions; and therefore our nations' policy choices, both at home and abroad.
Low-caste Hindus are converting to Christianity in an attempt to escape their spot at the bottom of India's social hierarchy, and sparking religious violence in the process
Unless you are a vegetarian Hindu from the Indian state of Gujarat, don't bother applying for an apartment at the Mayfair Residency in the upmarket Mumbai suburb of Khar.
The dispute over a historic religious site in the northern town of Ayodhya has come to define the often fiery mix of politics and religion in India.
McDonald's menus in India, where the chain hopes to begin operations in 1995, will have an unusual twist: They will offer no beef, reflecting the Hindu belief that the cow is sacred. Hindus compris...
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the same guy you saw with the Beatles in the Sixties and on talk shows in the Seventies, is opening schools in all 50 states. They will offer MBAs, among other degrees. But H...
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