More than a billion people in India celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali on Monday as a state government secured the much-coveted record for lighting the largest number of oil lamps. Every autumn, ...

The city of Ayodhya in northern India broke a Guinness World Record by lighting more than 300,000 clay oil lamps on the eve of the Hindu festival Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights. The ...

The festive season has started with great fervour and as Diwali draws closer, the markets have been glittering with beautiful lights and garlands. People are seen running around the market to buy ...

More than 2.2 million lamps burned for 45 minutes as fireworks exploded over a sacred river in north India - just days after two of the country's cities were named the worst in the world for air ...

Nov. 3 (UPI) --A Diwali celebration at a mall in India created a new Guinness World Record for the most people lighting oil lamps in a relay. The Lulu Mall in Lucknow gathered 350 store workers and ...

Oct. 18 (UPI) --The government of a state in northern India is planning a record-breaking lamp display in celebration of a religious holiday. Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, plans to ...

Washington: US President Barack Obama greeted Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists across the world on the occasion of Diwali, saying it was a chance to remember that even in the midst of darkness, ...

Akhnoor [Jammu and Kashmir], October 24 (ANI): Indian Army soldiers once again celebrated Diwali while being on call of duty. Indian frontline soldiers, posted along the Line of Control (LoC) in the ...