In an effort to try and prevent the detention of air quality during the Diwali festive season, India's New Delhi, which happens to be the world's most polluted capital in the world, has announced some strict actions. Watch the video to know more.

India: New Delhi puts firecracker ban ahead of Diwali, 3 years in jail if caught bursting crackers

Watch how Diwali is celebrated throughout the world. WION Wideangle brings you the 'Many Stories Of Diwali' with Ashwin Sanghi and Suhag A. Shukla.

The many stories of Diwali | WION Wideangle

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Ayodhya on the eve of Diwali, the festival of lights, where he inaugurated the grand 'Deepotsava celebrations'. Millions of diyas were lit in the town which is widely believed to be the birth place of Lord Rama.

India's Ayodhya turns into sparkling utopia on Diwali eve, over 1.5 mn diyas lit on Saryu's banks

It's Diwali, which means time to spend some quality time with family. If you are planning to stay in this Diwali, then we have some good news. You don't need to waste time surfing wondering what you should watch because we have picked out five Indian feel-good films that will brighten up your mood this festive season.

'Queen' to 'English Vinglish': 5 feel-good films to watch this Diwali

Ahead of week-long Diwali festival, huge crowds turned up at India’s southern Bengaluru city airport in a bid to make way for their homes on time. A video went viral on social a couple of days ago showing the massive crowed gathered at the Kempegowda International Airport at 3 am.

Watch: Huge crowd throngs to India’s Bengaluru airport ahead of Diwali

The festival of light, Diwali, is just a few days away and a Kashmiri Muslim family is busy making clay lamps for the festival. Omar and his family have been in the pottery business for decades and this year they have made about nearly 15,000 lamps.

India: Muslim family makes lamps for Diwali; to be celebrated on October 24

United States Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated Diwali with her husband and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff at their residence in Washington on Friday. Community leaders who attended the celebration said that Harris stated that the Hindu festival, Diwali, is a universal concept that transcends cultures.

WATCH | Kamala Harris celebrates Diwali, says it is 'universal concept' that transcends cultures

Diwali special: Not just India, these countries also celebrate the festival

With the Diwali festival around the corner, a Kashmiri Muslim family is busy making clay lamps for several weeks. Over 15,000 clay lamps have been made and dispatched so far with many being made even now.

Ahead of Diwali, this Kashmiri Muslim family has made and sold thousands of diyas

Diwali, not just a festival but an emotion for millions, will now be a public school holiday in New York City from 2023, the mayor announced on Thursday (October 21).

'Diwali' to be a public school holiday from 2023 in New York City, announces mayor

Diwali is just around the corner! Soon the festivities will begin and people will deck up in their prettiest outfits and click Instaworthy snaps. Have you decided what you are going to wear on the special day?

Celeb-inspired ethnic attires for Diwali

The air quality in Delhi continued to remain in the 'severe' category on Monday (November 8, 2021) for the fourth consecutive day after the festival of Diwali. But, a large part of this is due to an increase in stubble burning related pollutants.

Air quality continues to remain 'severe', days after Diwali in Delhi

In Pics | Diwali celebrations across the globe

For the first time ever, a Diwali-themed animation has been adorned upon the One World Trade Center, a symbol of New York City's eternal goodness. The animation went live on November 2 at 6 pm (local time) and continued until November 4.

Watch | In a first, New York's World Trade Center lit up for Diwali

A thick and heavy acrid smog engulfed the residents of India’s national capital Delhi and surrounding regions on Friday, a day after people blatantly disregarded the government’s ban and burst firecrackers.

Itchy throats, watery eyes: Post Diwali, air quality turns ‘hazardous’ in India’s national capital Delhi

After Diwali, people of the India's national capital Delhi, woke up to a lot of smoke and very smoggy dawn. The air quality of the city has significantly worsened once again. WION gets you more.

Delhi's air quality turns 'severe' after Diwali as cracker ban goes up in smoke

Diwali 2021: Alia Bhatt to Priyanka Chopra: Here's how Bollywood celebs celebrated festival of lights

Alia Bhatt made this Diwali quite special for her fans. The 'Raazi' actress celebrated the festival of lights with her boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor and treated fans with some adorable loved-up photos.

Alia Bhatt & Ranbir Kapoor can’t take their eyes off each other in latest Diwali post

Diwali is one of the most popular Indian festivals, it is seen as a celebration of the victory of good over evil. But India isn’t the only place that celebrates the festival of lights. Here is how various countries in the world are celebrating the festival.

This is how various countries across the world are celebrating Diwali

It's Diwali today and the parties have begun already since last night. Bollywood celebrities although not making it too big this year were seen dressing up in their pretty best.

Inside Ekta Kapoor's Diwali bash: Salman Khan, Ibrahim Ali Khan and others make it to the star-studded affair

The festival of lights, Diwali, is being celebrated all over the world on Thursday. One of the most popular Hindu festivals, it is seen as a celebration of the victory of good over evil.

New York city's iconic World Trade Center has been lit up to showcase a pretty spectacular digital mural to celebrate the festival of lights, Deepavali.

New York: Spectacular digital mural on World Trade center podium for Diwali

As part of the celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, the north Indian city of Ayodhya set a new Guinness World Record by lighting 900,000 oil lamps and keeping them blazing for at least 45 minutes.

Diwali in Ayodhya: Indian holy city lights record number of oil lamps

As India celebrated Diwali, US President Joe Biden also greeted Indians on Diwali saying: "May the light of Diwali remind us that from darkness there is knowledge, wisdom, and truth.

US President Biden, VP Kamala Harris, other world leaders wish Happy Diwali

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