As evening approaches, devotees light lamps (deepas) in their homes and temples. Families chant mantras like "Om Pitrubhyo ...

Chief Minister Yogi performs Rudrabhishek of Bhagwan Shiva in Gorakhpur, prays for the well-being of the people of the ...

The Magh Mela, symbolising faith, penance and devotion, concluded on Sunday on the sacred occasion of Maha Shivratri at the holy Sangam in Prayagraj.

MAHIDPUR: The town witnessed vibrant Mahashivratri celebrations as devotees thronged Shiva temples. Temples, beautifully ...

Lakhs of devotees from across the country thronged various temples of Lord Shiva and <br />offered special prayers on the occasion of the auspicious Mahashivarathri.

The Ganga bifurcates as it enters West Bengal from Bihar, with one distributary veering off into Bangladesh as the Padma. The ...

Mahashivratri is on February 15, and I am tempted this week to revisit Shiva lore at Ujjain, where he is worshipped as Mahakaal. The famous Nasadiya Sukta, in its creation theory, Rig Veda 10:129:3 ...

Standing by the side of a pandal made of the long green leaves of coconut palms, a holy man mumbling his undecipherable name resembled what makes people think o ...

Our modern calendar is the Gregorian calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII, who reformed it in 1582 to correct some errors in the older Julian calendar. The Julian calendar was named for Julius Caesar ...

More than 3,000 years ago, an earthquake toppled two monumental statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. Now, after decades of restoration work, the artworks, called the Colossi of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just when you may have thought that archaeologists have discovered all there is to find in Egypt, they uncover something new. This ...