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Special task force to protect temple lands
Hyderabad: The cabinet subcommittee, which was formed to strengthen the Endowments department and examine the proposal of paying the salaries of Archakas through the treasury, decided to set up a special task force More...
Ambubachi Mela begins at Kamakhya temple in Assam, 25 lakh visitors expected | The Indian Express
Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who has been personally supervising the preparations said the government has put in maximum efforts to ensure that the Mela passes off peacefully. (Source: Express Dasarath Deka) The More...
Ambubachi Mela: Assam Temple Celebrates Menstruating Goddess Kamakhya
Quick Facts The Kamakhya Temple was re-built in the 17th century by the kings of Cooch Bihar There are three crowns inside the inner temple, representing three forms of the Goddess: Lakshmi, Saraswati and Kamakhya The More...
UP tax department denies permission to bring sandstones for Ram temple | The Indian Express
The Commercial Tax department of UP government has denied permission to Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas to bring fresh lot of sandstones from other states to Ayodhya for carving out structures for the proposed Ram Temple More...
Temples Dedicated To characters Of Mahabharata. Here Are 12 Such Unusual Temples
We often consider texts like Ramayana and Mahabharata as religious and sacred texts and that is why it is not surprising that we consider characters from these epics like Rama, Krishna or Hanuman as Gods. While More...
Lord Jagannath’s ‘Snan Yatra’ held at ISKCON Rajapur temple | Business Standard News
Annual bathing festival popularly known as ‘Snan Yatra’ of Lord Jagannath, Baladeva and Subhadra was held at the ISKCON, Rajapur temple, Nadia district today. The festivities started early this morning More...
Guwahati ready for 2.5 million pilgrims to Kamakhya temple in next four days | The Indian Express
The Ambubachi Mela is said to be a festival coinciding with the four-day annual holy cycle that Kamakhya – the Mother Goddess in this temple who also represents the goddess of procreation and fertility – undergoes More...
Idols in unprotected temples in T.N. easy pickings for smugglers – The Hindu
38,500 sites listed with HR & CE, but only 26,000 idols come under ASI In a State where the temples are seldom managed based on their heritage or historic value, the idols of several temples in far flung districts More...
1000-year-old Hindu temple excavated in Dinajpur | The Independent
A group of archaeologists has recently unearthed a rare Vishnu temple with a unique ‘nava-ratha’ architecture at Madhabgaon village in Kaharol upazila of the northern district of Dinajpur. Archaeologists from More...
Parvati temple found buried in Odisha sand
Buried artefacts of the 8th Century are emerging during renovation work of the Bateswar temple near Rushikulya rookery in Ganjam district of Odisha. The temple is located on the coastal sand dunes around eight More...