PURI: Colourful and immersive is how people define Puri’s Sahi Jata (or Sahi Jatra), an endangered form of open air narrative ...

In the epic The Ramayana, Lord Rama went there to do penance for killing the demon Ravana. Adi Shankara, the founder of the philosophy of non-dualism called Advaita Vedanta, built temples there in ...

Ram defeated Ravana with a Brahmastra, leading to Ravana's death. Vibhishan refused to cremate Ravana, but Ram convinced him.

Why the artwork of Lanka’s deposed king in the Constitution of India, and the stories that surround him, are important ...

Rama smiled at them all and said, ‘It is not only for Sita’s rescue that we have come, but also to put an end to Ravana and his demon-race. Sita is but one woman amongst many who are exposed ...

NEW DELHI: India has strongly condemned the brutal killing of Bhabesh Chandra Roy, a prominent Hindu minority leader in Bangladesh, calling it part of a “pattern of systematic persecution” of ...

WEST PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) - Philadelphia police said just before 11:30 p.m. Friday gunshots rang out on the 5700 block of Ludlow Street. Police said a 29-year-old woman had been shot in the head ...

An escaped California inmate who was wanted in connection with the death of the leader of an elite Mexican police unit was arrested after a weeklong manhunt, officials said. Cesar Hernandez, who ...

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty.

James Dorr, 34, was arrested a day after the Jan. 28 killing in Green Bay, Wis. Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk. He work also appears in The New York Times ...