This festival symbolizes new beginnings and gratitude, celebrated across India with various regional traditions.

Makar Sankranti, a major Hindu festival celebrated across India and parts of South Asia, marks the Sun's transition into Capricorn (Makara), signifying the end of the winter solstice. Occurring in ...

During the Makar Sankranti kite-flying festival in Telangana, manja strings caused multiple injuries, including one to a police constable. Despite bans, the sale of hazardous 'Chinese manja' persists, ...

Makar Sankranti is an important festival dedicated to Surya, the Hindu sun god, marked by ritual bathing. It is also celebrated as a harvest festival, signifying the gathering of various winter crops.

Naked Hindu ascetics and pilgrims are taking holy dips in sacred rivers in the first major bathing day of the Maha Kumbh festival, which is the largest religious congregation on Earth.

Hyderabad: Sankranti festival was celebrated with fervor and joy in the city on Tuesday with people flying kites throughout the day after performing puja in the morning. The lanes and bylanes in ...

People dance to celebrate the Maghe Sankranti Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Jan. 14, 2025. Nepali Hindus celebrate the festival across the country, during which people take a ritual bath at river ...

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Dibrugarh: Over 70,000 pilgrims converged at the sacred Parshuram Kund in Arunachal Pradesh's Lohit district for the ...

This pan-Indian festival unites the country in gratitude, joy, and reverence for nature and its cycles. Gujarat celebrates Makar Sankranti also known as Uttarayan with kite flying and it is one of ...

Vijayawada: Liquor worth Rs 217.44 crore was sold during the Sankranti festival in Andhra Pradesh, as against a consumption ...

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath also wished everyone a happy Makar Sankranti, emphasizing its importance as a festival of ...