BJP launches ''I'm also a Karsevak, Arrest Me Too'' campaign in KarnatakaLeading the campaign in Bengaluru, MLA and former minister V Sunil Kumar staged a sit-in demonstration near the Sadashivanagar police stati...
04 Jan, 2024, 02.44 PM IST
Modi, ministerial connect, push for local Gods in BJP's Tamil Nadu plansNew Delhi is finally getting the context right in the state, local leaders say, with the party unit building an "all caste-inclusive campai...
23 Oct, 2022, 12.04 AM IST
Which God will accept offerings of priest who molests children, asks Kerala HCKerala HC noted that the accused, a priest in a temple, usually came home drunk and used to assault the mother and the children and sexuall...
24 Sep, 2021, 02.24 PM IST
DMK government appoints trained aspirants of all castes as priests in templesThe appointments include 24 aspirants who had formally completed training in a state-run centre for becoming priests in Hindu temples, 34 o...
14 Aug, 2021, 06.38 PM IST
Karnataka mulls reopening temples in phased manner after July 5After the second wave of the pandemic hit the state, Karnataka had announced the two-week 'Corona Curfew' on April 27, however, as the Covi...
30 Jun, 2021, 02.17 PM IST
Temples in Karnataka lost Rs 600 crore during lockdown, says MinisterThe minister said around five lakh food packets were distributed from temples in Dakshina Kannada during the lockdown period.
01 Jun, 2020, 05.31 PM IST
Mosques, Churches likely to open along with temples from June 1: Karnataka CM"Temples will open from June 1, for hotels and others we want permission from Delhi, from the Prime Minister, I have written a letter, the ...
27 May, 2020, 01.45 PM IST
Temple town Udupi serves a complex caste menu in its 5 seatsThere are many facades to this coastal town that houses eight temples of the Dvaita stream of Hindu Mutts — a Brahminical spiritual order f...
10 May, 2018, 07.59 AM IST
Congress goes all out for Rahul Gandhi’s coastal tourThe Congress currently holds seven of the eight seats in Dakshina Kannada district. BJP has only two but these numbers are no indication of...
21 Mar, 2018, 09.48 AM IST
Karnataka Elections 2018: Rahul Gandhi to be on a two-day campaign in Sangh Parivar stronghold“We have only planned a tour of the southern part of the coast this time. There is no rule that he (Rahul) has to visit the places that Sha...
19 Mar, 2018, 07.46 PM IST
Why India is not a secular stateState government can use the money generated by a temple for purposes that have absolutely nothing to do with not just the temple, but even...
07 Dec, 2015, 12.38 PM IST
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa launches 'Annadhanam' in 206 more Tamil Nadu templesShe launched the extension of the Annadhanam scheme to 206 more temples at the Secretariat, an official release here said today.
17 Sep, 2015, 08.21 PM IST
Government would consider appointing women as priests in Karnataka temples: SiddaramaiahKarnataka Government would consider appointing women priests to conduct pujas in state-run temples, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said.
28 Sep, 2014, 04.50 PM IST
Capitalism Vs Caste: How market economy can sweep away centuries of caste discriminationIn district Sangli of Maharashtra , a new kind of social narrative is at work. It is this village where dalit industrialist Ashok Khade was...
17 Apr, 2013, 11.23 AM IST