Construction of temple in Kotathattu village stopped | The Hindu
C.B. Vedamurthy, Superintendent of Police, Directorate of Civil Rights Enforcement, said on Tuesday that the construction of a parallel temple, with the name of Danagunda Ammamalasavari, had been stopped at Kotathattu village in Udupi district. The Karnataka Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (DSS) had objected to the construction of a temple by a group of “upper More...
469 buildings ‘violated height norm’ near temple | The Times of India
MADURAI: The Madurai Corporation on Wednesday told the Madras high court Madurai bench that it earmarked 469 buildings that were erected violating the government order dated January 30, 1997 prohibiting construction More...
Over 300-year-old wooden temple car on display | The Hindu
The more than 300-year-old worn out wooden temple car of the Arulmigu Sugavaneswarar Temple, which is out of use, has been displayed by the temple authorities as an exhibit on the temple campus. The over 500-year-old More...
Saraswati river existed, flowed for 7,000 years: MSU geologists | Times of India
VADODARA: The Saraswati river, so far considered mythical, did exist, geologists from M S University’s Department of Geology have found. The geologists have made a significant breakthrough on the mighty Himalayan More...
Epic discovery: Kolkata scholars find ‘lost’ manuscripts in Chennai library | Times of India
KOLKATA: Ancient Indian scholar Jaimini, a student of Ved Vyasa, has been held in great esteem for his re-telling of the ‘Mahabharata’. But most Indology scholars considered his works to be lost because More...
‘Revolutionary Zero’: This ancient Indian manuscript has the first known use of ‘Sunya’ | Zee News
New Delhi: The origin of the concept of zero or sunya has been traced an ancient Indian Bakhshali manuscript. Radiocarbon dating, conducted by the University of Oxford, reveals that the manuscript belongs to 3rd More...
Mhadei project turns centuries-old Mauli temple’s sacred tank into a pit | Times of India
Kankumbi: Tucked away in this sleepy village of Kankumbi is a small Mauli temple. From ancient times, it has been a popular pilgrimage centre of the region with pilgrims from three states—Goa, Karnataka and More...
Duo steal idols from Andheri Jain temple, caught on CCTV | The Hindu
Mumbai: Two idols were stolen from a Jain temple in Andheri (West) in an early morning theft on Saturday. The two burglars, who committed the crime at around 5 a.m. in the temple on the Kumkum society compound, More...
Nine workers injured in Kerala as temple roof caves in | The New Indian Express
PARAVUR: Almost two years after 110 people died in a firecracker tragedy at the Puttingal Devi temple at Paravur near here, nine workers were on Monday injured when a newly-cast concrete roof caved in, police said. According More...
Vedapureeswarar Temple consecrated after 19 years | The Hindu
A large number of devotees witnessed the ‘mahakumbabhishekam’ of the nearly 600-year-old Sri Vedapureeswarar Temple after a gap of 19 years on Sunday. After preliminary pujas and dravya homam, holy water meant More...