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By Editor On Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
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Age-old religious customs cannot be stopped casually: Madras HC | Hindustan times

The Madras high court has held that centuries-old religious customs and practises cannot be stopped by government machinery by citing administrative inconvenience or anticipated trouble, unless such events become More...

By Editor On Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
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Sibal pulls out of Babri Masjid case amid worries in Congress over damage to party image | The Print

New Delhi: Congress leader and senior advocate Kapil Sibal has withdrawn himself from the controversial Babri Masjid case in the Supreme Court. Sibal was the counsel for Iqbal Ansari, the legal heir of Hashim Ansari, More...

By Editor On Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
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Inside Kerala’s ‘complete yoga village’: A lot of glee, but some concerns too | The Indian Express

Early last year, when the panchayat of Kunnamthanam, a village inside Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district, conducted a health study among its 7000-plus households, some disturbing results were stirred up. Chiefly More...

By Editor On Monday, March 26th, 2018
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A monumental tribute to Hoysala architecture, in size and time | The Hindu

An ambitious plan to build a Hoysala-style temple bigger than the Belur Chennakeshava temple has brought a fair amount of interest to Venkatapura, a small village in Kolar district. The project will take at least More...

By Editor On Saturday, March 24th, 2018
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VHP’s ‘Ram Rajya Rath Yatra’ continues journey through TN | PTI

The VHP-backed Ram Rajya Rath Yatra, seeking to mobilise support for a Ram temple in Ayodhya, today drew crowds in large numbers in this town. The yatra, which was coming from Rameswaram en route to Kanyakumari, More...

By Editor On Saturday, March 24th, 2018
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IRCTC to run Bharat Darshan trains in summer | The Hans India

Vijayawada: It is good news to pilgrims who visit various holy temples and tourist places in different parts of India. The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will be running three Bharat More...

By Editor On Saturday, March 24th, 2018
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Kumbh 2019 to show on Google map | Times of India

ALLAHABAD: The visitors coming to Kumbh 2019, including Indians and several foreign nationals will not have to wander searching for various roads, camps and ghats etc in the vast Mela area. The maze of roads in More...

By Editor On Saturday, March 24th, 2018
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German Prez visits Sarnath; takes part in Ganga Aarti | PTI

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier today arrived in Varanasi where he visited the Buddhist pilgrimage site Sarnath and participated in the Ganga ‘Aarti’ and also visited the Banaras Hindu More...

By Editor On Thursday, March 8th, 2018
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Restoration after 100 years at Thothadri Nathan Divyadesam | The Hindu

It is the final leg of Venu Srinivasan’s 11 Divya Desams restoration initiative around Tirunelveli that he began way back in the 1990s with Erettai Tirupathi, a temple that was lying in a state of disrepair. Today, More...

By Editor On Thursday, March 8th, 2018
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Dakshineswar Kali in Thanjavur village | The Hindu

Sir Ramaswami Srinivasa Sharma, or Sir R.S. Sharma for short, is an interesting character of the pre-Independence days. Born in 1890 or so, he was from the Tiruvaiyaru region. Being of an ambitious bent of mind, More...