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 […]
