Southern states urge central govt. to declare Sabarimala temple as national pilgrim centre’ | Metro Vaartha

Thiruvananthapuram | A ministerial conference of southern states held here today requested the central government to declare ‘Lord Ayyappa Temple’ at Sabarimala as a national pilgrim centre. The meeting presided by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan passed a resolution in this regard, considering the fact that declaring ‘Sabarimala’ as a More...

MES Road residents renovate old temple | The Hindu
Residents of MES Road in Ganapathypuram , East Tambaram, have joined hands to renovate an old temple at Nadu Theru, off MES Road. The renovation of Arulmigu Sree Nagathamman Aalayam is under way and the temple will More...

Govt will stop plunder of temples: Minister | The Hindu
The government is with the devotees and not with those who plunder the temple wealth, Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran has said. However, when asked whether he meant the president and member of the recently More...

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 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...

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...