Following last year’s state-wide protests to ban Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu, the event is being organised in Madurai today on the occasion of Pongal.
Girls who have attained puberty are not allowed to take part in this religious practice. Locals say that this ritual of bequeathing girls to village deity Yezhaikaatha Amman is performed every year.
The deadly online Blue Whale continues to haunt the tech-savvy youth in India as a 19-year-old boy allegedly hung himself at his home in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai on Wednesday while completing the last challenge of the game
People in Madurai's Alanganallur, famous for conducting the rural sport where Chief Minister O Panneerselvam will inaugurate jallikattu today are sitting in protest with a demand to find a permanent solution to the ban.
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