Indians celebrate Diwali by lighting a record number of earthen lamps

Indians have celebrated the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, by symbolically lighting a record 2.51 million earthen oil lamps at dusk on Wednesday on the banks of the river Saryu in a city they believe to be the birthplace of the deity, Lord Ram

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