Singapore restores 164-yr old Hindu temple | PTI
Twenty artisans from India have joined scores of local devotees in the restoration of a 164-year-old Hindu temple, a declared national monument, here, in a nearly Rs 20 crore project. Work has been going on for More...
At this Kerala temple, thousands of men dress up as women to get deity’s blessings
Cross-dressing is generally not received well, but at the Kottankulangara Devi temple at Chavara near here, it’s different — hundreds of men cutting across religions dress up like women as part of More...
‘Will immolate self if temple is not built’ says BJP MP Ram Vilas Vedanti
AYODHYA: Senior VHP leader and former BJP MP Ram Vilas Vedanti announced on Tuesday that he would immolate himself on next Ram Navami, in April next year, if the construction of Ram Mandir does not start More...
Devotee donates Rs 39 lakh gold lamp to Shirdi’s Sai temple | Times of India
SHIRDI: A Mumbai-based devotee has donated a five-wick lamp made from 1,351 grams of gold worth Rs 39 lakh to the renowned Sai Baba temple here, temple authorities on Sunday said. Temple authorities identified More...
Palani Andavar icon: A scientific Analysis
Palani is the most sacred religious abode of Lord Daņdāyudhapāni. Attracting people in large numbers regardless of their religious faiths and breaking language barriers, Palani is a powerful religious healing More...
Minority Hindu Malaysian Community Concerned Over 7 Temple Attacks by Extremists in 3 Months
According to reports, vandals damaged the statue of a Hindu deity at Dewa Sri Mathurai Veeran Hindu Temple in Bayan Baru (Penang) on July two evening. A statue at the Sri Veera Muniswarar Alayam Hindu temple in More...
Plan To Smuggle Out Original Navabhasana Idol? Palani Idol Scam Is More Than What Meets The Eye | Swarajya
Renowned sthapathi M Muthiah has been arrested and locked up in Trichy Central Jail in the Palani idol scam, and the question that has emerged is will he be stripped of the Padmashri award he got in 1992. Muthiah More...
Age-old religious customs cannot be stopped casually: Madras HC | Hindustan times
The Madras high court has held that centuries-old religious customs and practises cannot be stopped by government machinery by citing administrative inconvenience or anticipated trouble, unless such events become More...
Cop transferred over ‘assault’ on temple priest in Allahabad | The Indian Express
A sub-inspector was transferred to the police lines for allegedly mishandling a dispute between a guesthouse owner and a temple priest on Monday evening in Allahabad’s Daraganj area. According to the police, sub-inspector More...
Cops on duty at Kashi Vishwanath temple’s sanctum sanctorum wear dhotis, kurtas | Hindustan Times
In a first, police personnel deployed for crowd control duty in the sanctum sanctorum of the famous Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi have started wearing dhotis kurtas from Monday in deference to worshippers’ More...