WEST PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The gatherings began in homes of the faithful, but by the end of the 20th century, the number of those households had more than quadrupled from just a decade earlier. Drawn to ...

NEW DELHI — Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women have gathered in India’s northern city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world’s largest religious gathering. The festival — site ...

Pakistan Army: The Pakistan Army is one of the largest standing armies in the world, boasting a strength of around 6,54,000 active military personnel. But, unlike their Indian counterparts, the ...

Is India’s overwhelming Hindu majority shrinking? A recent survey by the Pew Research Center echoes news reports based on leaked figures from the 2011 census. For the first time since independence in ...

Before the 13th century Europeans used Roman numerals to do arithmetic. Leonardo of Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, is largely responsible for the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system in ...