Chennai, Sept 25 (BPNS) The Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment department on Monday appointed five more women as Odhuvars. Odhuvars are those who sing Tamil devotional hymns but they don’t enter the sanctum sanctorium. With the appointment of five women on Monday, the total Odhuvars in temples of Tamil Nadu under HR&CE has touched ten. […]
Chennai, June 7 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu revenue officials sealed the Dharmaraja Droupadi Amman temple in Melpathi village of Villupuram district on Wednesday. The revenue officials took the action as caste Hindus had barred entry to people belonging to the Adi Dravidar community. This led to a tense situation in the area and possible escalation of law […]
Chennai, Dec 26 ( BPNS) The revenue officials of Tamil Nadu sealed the Sakthi Mariamman Temple at Virudasampatti in Salem district after caste Hindus prevented the entry of Dalits into the temple. Police said that the temple is under the control of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR&CE) department. The temple was recently renovated […]
Chennai, Sept 6 (BPNS) Even as the ruling DMK is vouching for its ideology of social justice and equality and celebrating September as Dravidian month, the ground reality is something different. A temple in Tiruchi district of Tamil Nadu and falling under the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR&CE) has drawn flak over not allowing […]
Chennai, June 16 (BPNS) The idol wing of the Tamil Nadu police has commenced a probe after two idols from the state were traced to museums in the United States of America. Idol wings sleuths told IANS that a tenth-century idol of Somaskandar was located in the North Simon Museum, California another Amman idol was […]
Chennai, May 5 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment (HR&CE) department will be renovating 80 temples that are 1000 years old. The HR&CE department minister, P.K. Sekar Babu in a statement on Thursday said that the state government was not against the Hindus and that this was being made out from certain […]
