Mahalakshmi Temple: 300-year-old temple among most visited
One of the most visited temples in Mumbai, the Mahalakshmi temple’s earliest records date back to the 1800s. Almost 300 years old, it stands right on the edge of the shore of the city on the Bhulabhai Desai Road. “Devi Mahalakshmi in this temple has not been carved out, she is a ‘swayambhu’ which means the figure of the devi had appeared on More...
Sarannavarathri ends at Srisailam temple
Sri Devi Sarannavarathri festivities came to an end in Srisailam temple with poornahuthi on Vijayadasami, on Tuesday. Priests performed kumkumarchana, yaganga havanam, Chandi, Rudra and Jayadi homams in the morning. More...
4 Indian temples where Ravana is worshipped
For most of us, the festival of Dussehra is synonymous with the victory of good over evil, which in turn is synonymous with Ram’s victory over Ravan. But there are some places in the country that symbolise More...
Witness to over a century of change, a temple for the ‘Guru’ in Gurgaon
A two-room temple, in a narrow lane in Gurgaon’s Subhash Nagar, has seen a lot in over 100 years of its existence. It has seen Gurgaon’s transition from a village to a city, and then to an IT hub struggling More...
Renovation of ancient Munger temple starts
Munger: The district administration has started to renovate the ancient Chandika Asthan temple and beautify the surrounding areas. To begin with, on the day of Mahalaya, the day of awakening of the Goddess Durga, More...
The Trouble With Temple Restoration in Myanmar | The Diplomat
MANDALAY – Restoring ancient temples has its own politics. The Indians found this out through their restoration work at Angkor Wat in northwest Cambodia, which they initiated in the 1980s, motivated primarily More...
A holy river or mere sewer? Modi govt’s Rs 2,000 crore plan to revive Ganga yields no results
Highlights New report shows Ganga has become filthier. Its water quality has worsened at several places. Rs 20,000 crore for clean-up has shown little result. Crores of rupees spent on cleaning More...
“Restart renovation work on temple mandapam” – The Hindu
Officials of the State Archaeology Department recently visited the rock-cut temple of Sri Parvathagiriswarar at Kundrandarkovil near Pudukottai and ascertained the condition of the 100-pillar mandapam, a work on More...
Amazing! Scientists of CSIR finds miraculous healing power of Ganga
CHANDIGARH: Until now, it was believed that the healing properties of the Ganga were merely the stuff of myths. However, scientists from the Institute of Microbial Technology (Imtech), Chandigarh, have for the More...
Adi Ganga disappears in West Bengal – India Climate Dialogue
Adi Ganga, the nearly 75 km long original channel of the Ganga, has been hijacked at several places. Three centuries ago, this was the main outflow of the Ganga to the Bay of Bengal. Today it is a sewer buried More...