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Temple Elephant ‘Lakshmi’ of the Manakula Vinayagar Temple collapsed and passed away on 30 November 2022, when she was out for her morning walk. She was only 30 years old and was much loved by the people of Puducherry.

Malai Mandala Perumal Temple (Also known as Girivardaraja Perumal Temple) is dedicated to the Hindu God Vishnu located at Sathurangapatnam Village near Kalpakkam in Kanchipuram District of Tamilnadu. Lord Varadar is seen in a walking posture with his feet at the same level as the head of Garuda. It is a Prarthana Sthalam for liberation from Sarpa Dosham.

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know”: Vaishnava philosopher Guru Ramanujacharya's original body preserved in Sri Ranganathaswamy temple with sandalwood paste-saffron for 900 years, no other chemicals added

Hindu religion is one of the world’s oldest religions, which beliefs in the circle of birth and death which happens again and again until one attains Mukti. Where the body is a gift from nature that is made up of five principles ‘bhutas’; fire, water, earth, ether, and air. It is hence believed that all the five principle elements acquired by the body should be given back to nature after death. Thus, Hindus cremate the body of the dead unlike Christians and Muslims, who bury them.

Around 1959-60, a heavy chest containing the idol was reportedly given to CIA officials for safekeeping at Lo Monthang (called “Mustang” in CIA files) by a Tibetan monk accompanied by Khampa bodyguards.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, also known as Swatantryaveer Savarkar, Vinayak Savarkar, or simply Veer Savarkar in Marathi, was a freedom fighter and an Indian independence leader and politician who coined the Hindu nationalist ideology of Hindutva. The date of birth of Savarkar is May 28, 1883, and died on February 26, 1966. He was a prominent figure in the Hindu Mahasabha.

Kanaklata Barua was not your regular teenager. She was made of much sterner stuff. So when Mahatma Gandhi gave the call to ‘do or die.’ the motto of the Quit India Movement he launched in 1942, Kanaklata went all in – and made the ultimate sacrifice.

He was a boat boy from Odisha. A patriot to the core. He was a witness to oppression by the British and hated them. When British police asked him to ferry them to the other side of the Brahmani River, he flatly refused.

Tarabai Bhosale was the daughter-in-law of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and the queen of Chhatrapati Rajaram Bhosale.

"Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye": Divine vegetarian Crocodile Babiya who guarded Sri Anantapuram Lake Temple in Kasaragod of Kerala for the last 70+ years passed away

Babiya, the divine crocodile who lived in Kerala’s Ananthpuram Ananthapamanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala’s Kasargod, has died. Over 75 years old, the crocodile passed away last night.

Kullu (Himachal Pradesh) [India]: Around 8,000 women, attired in traditional outfits, took part in the International Kullu Dussehra Festival and performed folk dance, at Rath Maidan in Kullu on Friday.