Hundreds of people offered rice and money at a shrine here Wednesday following rumours that a Sufi saint had asked all couples with a lone son to donate generously. The story spread ...

A bizarre ritual of dropping children between one and five years from a height of up to 20 feet in a Karnataka village to fulfil a vow to the gods will be ...

In a ritual to propitiate Lord Shiva, some residents of Jharkhand have been "transforming" themselves into ghosts throughout the Hindu month of Chaitra (mid-March to mid-April) during religious ceremonies to get their ...

A widow was forced to wear a garland made of shoes and her face was blackened after she defied a ban on her to offer prayer at a temple in Dhanbad district ...

Tribal residents of a slum in Orissa 'married' a 12-month-old boy to a dog in the hope that it will bring the boy prosperity and good health in the future. The 'marriage' ...

During exams, Karan Pandit does not suffer from the blues. He simply wears them. Pandit, an HSC student whose exams are on, wears a variety of underwear in different shades of blue. ...

A woman was sacrificed by her husband in a village in Jharkhand as he claimed he wanted to achieve supernatural powers. The incident took place in Hariyari village of Godda district, which ...

An incident of human sacrifice has come to light in a village in Maharashtra state's Amravati district where a woman has confessed to the crime, as per the police. The suspect, Manisha ...

Lina, a former worker at a cigarette factory in Indonesia, says she was 17-years-old the first time she was possessed by an evil spirit. "My older sister went down first. She was ...

Call it a miracle or diagnostic error on the part of the attending doctor, a 70-year-old man, who on Sunday was declared dead, came alive on Monday while his body was being ...