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Diwali celebrates lightness over darkness and is celebrated by more than 1 billion Hindu people each year. It also has its own versions in the Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism religions.

Dhanteras is the festival of wealth and prosperity. Hindu people celebrate this festival with great enthusiasm and fervour. On this day, they buy gold or silver. It is believed that buying expensive metal on this day brings in good luck and fortune.

There’s little in common between bigotry and “bhaijaan”, an Urdu word evoking love and respect for a brotherly figure. But in the haze of TV news electrosmog, even a word with such positive connotations as “bhaijaan” is being incubated as a pejorative.

This year Diwali, a popular festival for Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs, will be celebrated on Oct. 24, the Amavasya, or new moon day, of the month of Kartik in the traditional Indian lunar calendar.

A Hindu rights activist is calling on a Massachusetts museum to stop selling children’s plush toys representing three Hindu deities, which he says are “insensitive.”

Police say two Indian laborers have been killed in a grenade attack in disputed Kashmir, two days after assailants fatally shot a Kashmiri Hindu man

VARANASI: VARANASI: District Judge Ajay Krishna Vishvesha on Monday rejected six applications filed by individuals and organisations to become a party in the main case (No. 18/2022 Rakhi Singh vs state of UP and others) in which five Hindu women plaintiffs have sought the right to worship Shringar Gauri and…

PRAYAGRAJ: The Gyanvapi Mosque management – Anjuman Intezamia Masajid (AIM) – on Monday contested before the Allahabad high court that the petition of five Hindu women plaintiffs seeking daily worship of Shringar Gauri and other Hindu deities in Gyanvapi complex was not maintainable under the Places of Worship Act 1991.

The Guardian has asked the Indian news website OpIndia to stop its “online attacks” on the British newspaper’s reporter Aina J Khan over her coverage of the violence involving Hindu and Muslim groups in Liecester, England.