Key Points
Fireworks light the sky as lamps are light up the banks of the river Saryu on the eve of the Hindu festival of Diwali, in Ayodhya, India..
On Sunday, millions of Indians celebrated Diwali with a new Guinness World Record number of dazzling earthen oil lamps, as air pollution concerns grew in the South Asian country...
Across the country, multi-colored lights adorned homes and streets as believers celebrated the annual Hindu festival of light, which symbolises the triumph of light over darkness...
According to Pratibha Goyal, vice-chancellor of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University in Ayodhya, around 24,000 volunteers, largely college students, assisted in preparing for the new record.. Diwali, a national holiday across India, is celebrated by socializing and exchanging gifts with family and friends..
The Diwali celebrations this year were marked as authorities prepared to inaugurate in January an under-construction and long-awaited temple of the Hindu god Ram at the site of a demolished 16th-century Babri mosque in Ayodhya city in Uttar Pradesh state...
