State Control Of Temples

In his maiden budget for 2022-23 presented on Friday, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai proposed for doing away with government control on temples in the state by giving autonomy to those coming under the purview of Endowment department.

Congress Karnataka unit president DK Shivakumar today called the BJP government's plans to free Hindu temples from state control a historic blunder and said that his party won't allow it.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat on Friday reversed his predecessor's decision and decided to remove the management of 51 temples from the control of the Char Dham Devasthanam Board and reconsider its formation.

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the rights of the former royal family in running the administration of the Kerala's Padmanabhaswamy Temple, setting aside the 2011 verdict of the Kerala High Court that directed the state government to take control of the historic temple in state capital Thiruvananthapuram.

No flights will take off or land from Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport from 9.30pm today till 6pm on Saturday as Cyclone Fani is expected to make landfall in the morning. All flights from Odisha capital Bhubaneswar have already been cancelled from midnight tonight as the "extremely severe cyclone" nears the state's coast, ...

In a U-turn, the board controlling Kerala's Sabarimala temple told the Supreme Court today that it supports the entry of women of all ages at the famous hill shrine. The board is controlled by the state's Left-led government, which has opposed any review of the top court's September order that opened the temple doors to women between the ages of 10...

In a landmark step, 36 non-Brahmins - six of them Dalits - have been appointed as priests in Kerala. The appointments were made by the Kerala's Travancore Devasom Recruitment Board, which is controlled by the state government - currently headed by CPM's Prinarayi Vijayan.

Syrian government forces backed by Russian air strikes battled ISIS insurgents around Palmyra on Monday, trying to extend their gains after taking back control of a city whose ancient temples were dynamited by the ultra-radical militants.

In his maiden budget for 2022-23 presented on Friday, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai proposed for doing away with government control on temples in the state by giving autonomy to those coming under the purview of Endowment department.

Congress Karnataka unit president DK Shivakumar today called the BJP government's plans to free Hindu temples from state control a historic blunder and said that his party won't allow it.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat on Friday reversed his predecessor's decision and decided to remove the management of 51 temples from the control of the Char Dham Devasthanam Board and reconsider its formation.

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the rights of the former royal family in running the administration of the Kerala's Padmanabhaswamy Temple, setting aside the 2011 verdict of the Kerala High Court that directed the state government to take control of the historic temple in state capital Thiruvananthapuram.

No flights will take off or land from Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport from 9.30pm today till 6pm on Saturday as Cyclone Fani is expected to make landfall in the morning. All flights from Odisha capital Bhubaneswar have already been cancelled from midnight tonight as the "extremely severe cyclone" nears the state's coast, ...

In a U-turn, the board controlling Kerala's Sabarimala temple told the Supreme Court today that it supports the entry of women of all ages at the famous hill shrine. The board is controlled by the state's Left-led government, which has opposed any review of the top court's September order that opened the temple doors to women between the ages of 10...

In a landmark step, 36 non-Brahmins - six of them Dalits - have been appointed as priests in Kerala. The appointments were made by the Kerala's Travancore Devasom Recruitment Board, which is controlled by the state government - currently headed by CPM's Prinarayi Vijayan.

Syrian government forces backed by Russian air strikes battled ISIS insurgents around Palmyra on Monday, trying to extend their gains after taking back control of a city whose ancient temples were dynamited by the ultra-radical militants.