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Union Minister for Railways Commerce and Industries Piyush Goyal after offering prayers at Lord Venkateswara temple, Tirumala, Chittoor district.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Andhra Pradesh Governor ESL Narasimhan and Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy at Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala in Tirupati.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy and priests after offering prayers at Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala in Tirupati.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers prayers at Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala in Tirupati.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi weighed against lotus flowers as he offers his prayers at Lord Krishna temple in Guruvayur of Thrissur district.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi accompanied by Kerala Governor P. Sathasivam, State Devasom Minister Kadakampally Surendran along with other senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi accompanied by Kerala Governor P. Sathasivam, State Devasom Minister Kadakampally Surendran along with other senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi accompanied by Kerala Governor P. Sathasivam, State Devasom Minister Kadakampally Surendran along with other senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leade...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi accompanied by Kerala Governor P. Sathasivam, State Devasom Minister Kadakampally Surendran along with other senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leade...

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Devotees pray after offering mangoes to Lord Krishna at a temple, in Ahmedabad.

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Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray with his family members and 18 victorious MPs of the party during a visit to Mahalaxmi Temple in Kolhapur.

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Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu with wife Usha and family members at Lord Venkateswara temple in Tirupati.

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Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu offers prayers at Lord Venkateswara temple in Tirupati.

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Devotees pour water over the 300-tonne monolithic stone statue of Vishwaroopa Mahavishnu which is to be installed in the premises of the Kothandaramaswamy Temple, in Bengaluru.

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YSR Congress Party chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister-designate YS Jaganmohan Reddy offers prayers at Lord Venkateswara temple in Tirupati.

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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister-designate YS Jaganmohan Reddy after offering prayers at Lord Venkateswara temple, Tirumala in Chittoor district.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with BJP President Amit Shah offers prayers at Kashi Vishwanath Temple, during a visit to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi after winning t...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves as he leaves Trade Facilitation Center along with BJP President Amit Shah, in Varanasi.

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Debris of razed buildings at the under-construction Kashi Vishwanath Corridor in Varanasi.

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A view of the under-construction Kashi Vishwanath Corridor in Varanasi. The corridor is being built to join the Vishwanath Temple — earlier hidden behind a maze of narrow congest...

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PM Modi Offers Prayers At Lord Krishna Temple In Guruvayur

After an hour-long 'darshan' at the temple, Prime Minister Narendra Modiwill address a party meeting — Abhinandan Sabha — being organised by the BJP Kerala State committee.

Jun 08, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Amit Shah Offers Prayers At Somnath Temple In Gujarat

The visit of Shah, the BJP candidate from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat, came on the eve of the conclusion of the seven-phase elections.

May 18, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
PM Modi Offers Prayers At Kedarnath Temple, Meditates In Cave

The prime minister's office is learnt to have sought the views of the Election Commission on the two-day official visit of Modi to Uttarakhand.

May 18, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Foundation Stone For The First Hindu Temple In Dubai Laid Today

The ceremony was conducted in the presence of Mahant Swami Maharaj, president of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, a religious and social organisation that will build and manage the temple.

Apr 20, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Hindu Temple Vandalised In Pakistan, Holy Books, Idols Burnt; PM Imran Khan Orders Probe

After the incident, the Hindus in the area held a protest in the city.

Feb 06, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Hate Crime: Hindu Temple Vandalised, Diety Sprayed With Black Paint In US

The incident happened between Sunday night and Tuesday morning at the Swaminarayan Temple in the Louisville city, authorities said, who are investigating the incident as a hate crime.

Jan 31, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Hindu Temple Desecrated In US, Vandals Blacken Idol, Leave Behind Knife As 'Message'

Vandalism resulted in deity image sprayed with black paint, broken windows, walls spray-painted with inappropriate messages and graffiti.

Jan 31, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
In This Tamil Nadu Temple, Biryani Is Served As 'Prasad' During Annual Festival

The temple serves Biryani as prasad wherein devotees donate funds for the prasad’s ingredients.

Jan 27, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Liquor Bottles In Food Packets Served At UP BJP Lawmaker's Temple Event

Naresh Agarwal's son Nitin had organised a sammelan (conference) for the Pasi community at the Shravan Devi Temple.

Jan 08, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Five Dead, 80 Hospitalised After Consuming 'Prasad' In Karnataka's Chamarajnagar District

After consuming the prasad, people started vomitting and began writhing with stomach pain, police said.

Dec 14, 2018

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Tankful Of Woes: Prayer For Rains Exposes Tamil Nadu's Inability To Harvest Water

With reservoirs running dry, Tamil Nadu's water restoration system has struck a controversial note even as the government issues diktat on how the rain god must be appeased!

May 29, 2019

| G.C. Shekhar
The Subcontinental Menu

From biryani as prasad at a temple near Madurai to soap made of donkey's milk, read this and much more in The Subcontinental Menu this week.

Jan 25, 2019

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Ayodhya Isn't A Hindu-Muslim Dispute; It's A Battle Between Communal And Secular Forces

The Ayodhya movement has been milked for electoral gains, it has centrestaged marginal political players and is being raked up again as the elections approach, writes S. Irfan Habib.

Nov 29, 2018

| S. Irfan Habib
Sants At Ayodhya Want An Ordinance, But It Won't Be Simple

Bringing in legislation to build a temple on the disputed site may not be simple. It’s been tried before.

Nov 29, 2018

| Salik Ahmad Ushinor Majumdar
Hindu, Hinduer, Hinduest: Will The 'Hindu Vote' Decide 2019?

Will the ‘Hindu vote’ decide 2019? The BJP anyway thought so, now the Congress seems to agree. And the whole ground is lurching rightward.

Nov 29, 2018

| Bhavna Vij-Aurora
Kerala, You’ve Got Male...

Sabarimala was the perfect trigger for savarna and masculine trauma, festering under its social skin, to erupt in Kerala

Nov 22, 2018

| J. Devika
Sabarimala Fiasco Reveals Fragility Of Kerala's Much-Vaunted Progressiveness

Not so very long ago, Sabarimala would have been an unknown entity outside Kerala. Now, this debate over gender bristles with implications on a host of questions relating to society, politics, law and religion across India.

Nov 22, 2018

| Minu Ittyipe
The Subcontinental Menu

In The Subcontinental Menu this week, read about Assam’s state health department which released a list of promotions featuring name of a registrar who had died and at why few contractual employees at Tirupti temple decided to smuggle out laddus.

Nov 14, 2018

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Misogyny In Malayalam

The Sabarimala and Franco fiascos are emblematic of the patriarchy’s resistance to women’s rights

Oct 24, 2018

| Minu Ittyipe
Sabarimala: Restrictions On Women A 'Recent Phenomenon'

Sabarimala Temple's newfound popularity is said to have provoked the first formal restrictions.

Oct 11, 2018

| Rohan Manoj