The practice of melting gold jewellery donated to temples for monetisation is not new and it has been in existence since 1977, the Tamil Nadu government informed the Madras high court on Tuesday.

An undertaking to this effect was given by the AG when the PILs from the Indic Collective Trust and four other individuals came up for further hearing, today. The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday ...

He said the process of melting gold jewellery and articles donated to temples was not new. According to the A-G, the HR&CE department had earned roughly ₹11.5 crore by way of interest from gold ...

For the believer, a temple is the locus of mystique and might with the southern state’s ancient places of worship being particularly powerful. The author writes that, as she visited numerous ...

1. Architecture: Tamil Nadu is home to some of the most stunning temple architecture in the world, with intricate carvings, colorful frescoes, and towering gopurams (entrance towers). The temples ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday launched the preliminary work to melt into 24 carat gold bars, the unutilised jewellery in the possession of the temples in the State. Initially ...

The Navagraha temples in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Assam are dedicated to the nine celestial beings that govern aspects of human existence. These ancient temples ...

Major temples in the State are set to become disabled ... S.M. Chellasamy of the Tamil Nadu Elders’ Welfare Association, who welcomed the idea of considering the needs of including senior ...

Chidambaram is a small city in Tamil Nadu, wholly unremarkable except for its temple complex. It took a nine-hour, non-stop journey on a local bus to reach the place – a trip I can safely say I ...

I’m not on pilgrimage.” Little do I then suspect that Destiny will deviate me on a near-obsessive decade-long pilgrimage to the temples of Tamil Nadu. The Brihadisvara Temple in ...