Gorehabba, the 'cow dung festival,' in Tamil Nadu's Gumatapura marks Diwali's end with a unique ritual. Villagers joyfully ...

Residents of Thulasendrapuram, a small village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, are excitedly preparing for the U.S. presidential election in which Kamala Harris, the granddaughter of one ...

In 2021, the village was nominated by India’s Tourism Ministry for the UNWTO Best Tourism Villages Award, bringing it into ...

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LONGWA, India (AP) — To the people who live there, Longwa is a typical hilltop village. The most imposing structure is a corrugated tin roof belonging to the Angh, a hereditary tribal chief. But ...

THULASENDRAPURAM, India — At a small temple in southern India, a group of people has been praying every day since late last month: “May Kamala Harris win this election. May she visit this temple and ...

On the outskirts of Amaravalli village on India's east coast, Marada Suguna has been hard at work planting mangroves.

Clean water had just started sputtering from newly installed taps in Pachdongri village in western India last month when the ...

THULASENDRAPURAM, India (AP) — The temple reverberated with rhythmic Sanskrit and Tamil hymns, as a Hindu priest held a flame before the god. As this tiny South Indian village gathered to pray for ...