Hyderabad : The discovery of a human carcass in the drinking water tank of the Kanaka Durga temple in Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh on Monday morning kicked up a storm among the pilgrims. The Durga Malleshwara Swamy Devasthanams, located atop Indra Keeladri Hill, is the second richest temple in the state after the Lord Venkateshwara […]
Gokarn: The Magha (February) month’s Amavasya (dark moon) after the holy Maha Shivaratri on the 14th day, was observed on Tuesday by devotees and Pilgrims coming to Gokarna Mahabaleswar Temple and seaside in the front, to offer watery homage to ancestors, by rice cooked balls and sacrifices, to please the dead persons in a family, […]
Rajkot : Six people were killed and 12 others injured in a stampede that broke out on Sunday night at Bhavnath temple’s annual Mahashivratri fair in the foothills of Mount Girnar in Gujarat’s Junagadh district. According to police, the stampede occured following panic after the brakes of a four-wheeler at the fair venue apparently failed. […]
Sabarimala: Thousands of pilgrims underwent severe hardships, waiting in long queues for about seven to eight hours, on the trekking path for the darsan of Lord Ayyappa on Saturday. The pilgrims, majority of them belonging to Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, were forced to remain in jampacked queues which extended up to Marakoottam. When […]
