Madurai’s Mariamman Teppakulam: a temple tank losing its sheen | The Hindu
The Mariamman Teppakulam and stories of its origin are often raved about in Madurai’s rich history. Builders in 1645 dug clay from the Vaigai banks to make bricks for building the Thirumalai Nayak palace. At some point, a pond-like structure was formed out of the digging. King Thirumalai Nayak decided to replicate the Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple’s More...
BMC removes portions of century-old temple in Malad
As part of its anti-encroachment drive, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has removed extensions of the famous Sri Sonya Maruti temple in Malad West amid heavy police bandobast. The temple, believed to More...
Telangana’s famous Kaleswaram Shiva Temple in Bhupalpally district to have unique eco-tourism garden | The Hindu
Mukti Vanam is a unique garden that is coming up initially on five acres of land close to the famous Kaleswaram Shiva temple here, as part of an eco-tourism development initiative by the district administration. The More...
Tamil Nadu: 14 ancient Murthis unearthed near Thanjavur | Times Of India
THANJAVUR: A total of 14 ancient Murthis and 7 pedestals, all reportedly to be panchaloha, were unearthed while workers were digging the earth for constructing a sump on part of construction of a temple at a village More...
When a temple in Bengaluru decides to not waste flower, leaves and other Disposables | Citizen Matters
What happens when a temple decides to go zero waste?? A lot of things can happen! The management realised that it’s more easy to manage garbage when you have nothing to throw.. Yes—that’s what happened at More...
Uttarakhand to ink MoU with Germany for Ganga clean up | Hindustan Times
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand will get technical expertise and loan assistance from Germany to clean the Ganga, for which both sides are likely to sign an agreement by December end, water resource minister Prakash Pant More...
Kerala temple board plans college, study centre to teach Vedas
Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), the largest temple body in Kerala, is mulling to set up an exclusive college and study centre to teach ancient knowledge streams of ‘Veda, Vedanta and Tantra. An autonomous body, More...
A Temple In Kerala Is Valiantly Resisting The Communist And Government Interference | Hindu Post
The temple town of Guruvayur, famous for the Sri Krishnaswamy temple is also an abode of several ancient less known temples. One of them is the Sree Parthasarathy Temple situated at about 1 km distance from Guruvayurappan More...
Rain swamps Konark Sun Temple, tourists suffer
BHUBANESWAR: Premises of Sun Temple at Konark, a UNESCO world heritage site, turned into an artificial pool following incessant rain, much to the inconvenience of tourists on Friday. Archaeological survey of India More...
Burglars decamp with jewelleries from temple | India Today
Kendrapara (Odisha), Oct 7 (PTI) Robbers decamped with jewelleries and valuables from a 500-year-old at seaside Ramnagar village in Kendrapara district. The miscreants broke into the sanctum sanctorum of the Ramachandi More...