“An important aspect of this holy festival is forgiveness,” says Saanchi Shah, 15, from King George V School, who is a Jain. During this Paryushana, she fasted for eight days; some ...

BAGHPAT: Dozens of devotees fell in a heap from a 65-foot-high temporary wooden platform during a Jain festival at Baghpat in UP on Tuesday morning, leaving seven people dead and at least 40 injured.

Shraddha Jain, with her beaming greeting of ‘Namaskara Bengaluru’, was welcomed with deafening cheers by a crowd of ...

Meru Trayodashi is a Jain festival marking the enlightenment and salvation of Rishabhanatha Deva, the first Jain Tirthankara. Celebrated on the 13th day of Shukla Paksha in Magh, it emphasizes ...

Many from Jain Mandals, Digambar Jain Clubs, Veera Sevas and Karnataka Jain Sabha have come voluntarily to do seva work like cleaning and cooking. Volunteers with proficiency in Hindi, English and ...

At least five people died and several others, including Jain disciples and police personnel, were injured after a makeshift stage collapsed at ‘Nirvana Laddu Parv’ of the first Tirthankara in ...