Chennai, Feb 28( BPNS) at Hill shrine The Hindu Munnani of Tamil Nadu has come out strongly against the state forest department collecting an entry fee of Rs 100 from the devotees who visit the Velliangiri Andavar temple in Velliangiri Mountains near Coimbatore. The hill shrine which has a trek of 5 km from the […]
Chennai, Feb 24 (BPNS) Tension continues in Sarkar Mandi street in Gandhi Road and a heavy police posse is present after a group of people belonging to the Hindu Munnai opposed the construction of a mosque at the area. The workers of the Hindu Munnani said that the mosque was built without proper permission and […]
Chennai, Feb 6 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi on Sunday paid floral tributes to the statue of Swami Vivekananda at the Vivekanda Illam here to mark the 125th anniversary of the return of Swamiji from Chicago after his historic speech at the World Parliament of Religions. The Tamil Nadu Rajbhavan in a statement said that […]
Chennai, Feb 3 ( BPNS) Fourty people from eight Dalit families in Theni, Southern Tamil Nadu have embraced Islam after they found living amongst the upper caste Hindu’s a nightmare. The conversion occurred a couple of days before at Dombicheri village in Bodinayakanur town in Theni district and Islamic priests solemnized the conversion. Incidentally, Bodinayakanur […]
Chennai, Jan 29 (BPNS) The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Chairperson Priyanka Kanoongo will visit Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu on January 30 and 31 on the allegations regarding the suicide of a plus Two girl. BJP and other right-wing organizations have been on a campaign in the state that the girl committed […]
Chennai, Jan 24 (BPNS) Coimbatore police have registered a case against two unidentified men who had allegedly vandalized a statue of St. Sebastian at a church in Coimbatore. The incident occurred late on Sunday. According to the Police, the statue of St Sebastian at the Holy Trinity Church, Ramanathapuram was desecrated by two miscreants who […]
Chennai, Jan 11 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu state transport department will operate 16,768 buses for the Pongal festival between January 11 and 13th in the state. 10, 468 buses will operate from Chennai while 6468 buses will be operated from other parts of the state. This was announced by the office of the Tamil Nadu transport minister, […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 14 ( BPNS) A Keralite priest who was brought up in a Leprosy hospital in Bengaluru owing to his mother being a nurse at the hospital is now the next Bishop of Loughborough in the United Kingdom. The 42-year-old who will be consecrated as a Bishop in January 2022 will be the youngest […]
Chennai, September 9( BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) department is to carry out extensive surveys using different global positioning systems(DGPS) to trace lost land of temples in the state. The HR&CE department has already engaged 150 licensed surveyors to complete the work. It may be noted that the land records […]
Chennai, August 18 (IANS) Nityananda, the fugitive godman who has been eluding the Indian law authorities over several charges of rape and other complaints by his former disciples and devotees have created a major controversy by declaring on social media that he has assumed charge as the 293 pontiff of Madurai Aadheenam. The 292 pontiff […]
