Kochi: Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) has set up a special counter at the Kochi Airport to facilitate Sabarimala pilgrims, Board President Advocate K. Ananthagopan said on Monday. Inaugurating the counter, he said the counter located at the arrival hall of the domestic terminal is operated by Dhanalaxmi Bank on behalf of Travancore Devaswom Board. Cochin…
Online portal denies right of girl children below 10 years for darshan Kochi: ‘Virtual Q Booking,’ an online portal jointly launched by the Kerala Police and the Travancore Devaswom Board for providing easy ‘darshan’ and hassle-free experience during Sabarimala pilgrimage, is now denying the rights of girl children aged below 10 years. According to parents…
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Devaswom Minister K. Surendran on Thursday said that there will be no Lord Ayyappa Swamy darshan at the famed Sabarimala Hill shrine for devotees from June 14, in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking to press persons here yesterday, Surendran said that Travancore Devaswom Board, which runs the temple, met recently to decide…
Tirupati/Thiruvananthapuram: Two of India’s biggest shrines, Lord Ayyappa Temple in Kerala and that of Lord Venkateswara in Andhra Pradesh, will re-open for devotees from next week in line with the Centre’s guidelines, but will do so with a slew of restrictions. Older people and children will not be allowed in both the hill shrines, while…
Thiruvananthapuram: The Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala, where the two-month-long annual pilgrim season is underway, will remain closed for four hours on Dec. 26 due to solar eclipse. The Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), the top temple body which manages the hill shrine, said yesterday that the sanctum sanctorum would be closed between 7.30 am and…
New Delhi: A Five-Judge Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi this morning referred the petitions seeking review of its previous judgment in the Sabarimala case to a larger Bench by 3:2 majority. In its September 2018 ruling, the Apex Court had lifted a ban on menstruating women from entering the Sabarimala Temple….
New Delhi: After the historic verdict on the Ayodhya land dispute matter, the Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi will announce verdicts on review petitions against its orders in two important cases tomorrow (Nov.14) — Entry of women to Sabarimala Temple and the Rafale Deal. In the Sabarimala case, a Five-Member Bench…
The Sabarimala Temple of the presiding deity Swamy Ayyappa, which is under a controversy following a Supreme Court order to allow women of all ages to enter the temple and offer prayers, was opened yesterday (Monday) for the annual temple festival being held for 10 days. The festival will end on Mar. 21. The temple…
By T.J.S. George Two factors are preventing the Sabarimala conundrum from moving towards a solution — and the self-promoting politics of BJP-RSS forces are too unimportant to be one of them. It’s true that Hindutva extremists’ political obstructionism drew attention in the early days through violence. Although their campaign was in the name of tradition,…
On January 2nd in the dark of the night two women dressed in black waited atop a hill to enter a restricted area. They waited for the right time to make a break for it. And just before dawn, they sneaked in with surgical precision and next day it was news ! No, we are…
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