Burglars have decamped with jewellery and cash worth Rs 1.25 lakh from a temple in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Tuesday. The miscreants broke into the Ram Mandir, located at Kongaon near Kalyan town, in the wee hours of Monday and made off with the valuables, an official at Kongaon police station said.
A 29-year-old Ayyappa devotee from Tamil Nadu, who was on his way to the Lord Ayyappa temple here for darshan, died due to suspected heart attack on Tuesday morning.
The hilltop shrine in Kerala's Pathanamthitta district is closed for women in the age group 10 to 50 years, and though the Supreme Court had struck down the restriction, there is great opposition to women between these ages visiting it.
After chief priest A K Sudheer Namboothiri opened the sanctum sanctorum at 3 a.m and performed special poojas including 'Neyyabhishekam' among others, the hill shrine was thronged by a large number of devotees throughout the day
Devotees visiting the Ram temple site from outside Ayodhya will soon be offered a community meal and also get to taste delicious sweets akin to Patna's famous 'Naivaidyam' laddoos, thanks to an initiative of the Bihar-based Mahavir Mandir Trust
The Ram Janambhoomi Nyas has said that it wants Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to head the trust that will oversee the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya
According to sources, the idol of Shani Dev was worshipped in the old temple near the primary school in Vaira Firozpur village till Saturday night. On Sunday morning, one Ramesh, who cleans the temple, found that the statue of Shani Dev placed there under a Peepal tree had been vandalized
The court said it has become imperative to take away the reins of management of the Shri Sai Bhakta Samaj, the society which manages the temple, from the incumbent office bearers so that they may also feel the urgency of conducting fresh elections to the managing committee
VHP Working President Alok Kumar said, "The temple of Saint Ravidas will be restored at the same place, the samadhi will be looked after and those arrested will be freed and no legal proceedings will take place against them. Congratulations!"
Delhi Congress working president Rajesh Lilothia on Friday rejected the Centre's offer to provide 200 square metre land for a Ravidas temple in south Delhi after the authorities demolished an existing structure.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being felicitated globally for his efforts, he should also be honoured in his own country, the women said.
A fire broke out at a temple in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, police said on Sunday. The fire started at around 10.30 pm on Saturday at Devi Diwasa Mandir in Kushwa village located in Nirmand tehsil on the border of Kullu and Shimla districts.
At a press conference here, Mulana Fazlul Manan Shahi, the Imam of Teele Wali Masjid in Lucknow, said, "We feel the pain caused by the temple's demolition as we have gone through a similar experience. We share the grief of our Dalit brothers. We will be there to rebuild the temple."
Khajrana Ganesh temple is the second such temple in Madhya Pradesh to have received the certificate after Ujjain's Mahakaleshwar.
Rao, who inspected the works and held a meeting with ministers and officials, directed that construction of cottages and infrastructure facilities be completed before the commencement of the proposed 'Maha Sudarshan Yagam' in February 2020,a release from the Chief Minister's office said.
A SAD-BJP delegation will meet the prime minister and ask him to assuage the hurt feelings of the Dalit community as well as find an amicable solution to the demolition of Guru Ravidas temple, he said while addressing a gathering on the occasion of 'Rakhar Punia' here.
It is suspected that the idols, worth several lakhs of rupees, had been abandoned because the robbers were not able to smuggle them out fearing surveillance, the police said.
A 52-year-old man attacked a Hindu priest in New York, while he was walking down the street in his religious garb near a temple in Floral Park. The priest has suffered injuries in the attack and is undergoing treatment. Meanwhile, the police are looking into whether the attack should be investigated as a hate crime.
Police on Wednesday arrested a 65-year-old man for raping a seven-year-old girl in a temple in Bhojpur district of Bihar and a youth for filming the act and uploading its video on the social media.
New idols will be on Tuesday placed in a temple that was vandalised in Hauz Qazi's Lal Kuan area in New Delhi last week after a fight over parking took a communal turn.
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