Woman Enters Temple

Congress leader Karti Chidambaram recently reacted to a video wherein a foreigner woman claims that she wasn't allowed to enter a temple in Kerala due to her nationality and religion.

Jiteshwari Devi, a member of the erstwhile royal family of Madhya Pradesh's Panna, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of violating temple rules by entering its sanctum sanctorum during Janmashtami celebrations, police said.

BSNL has ordered compulsory retirement for its employee and activist Rehana Fathima, who had attempted to enter the Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala, for her "intentional" act of outraging the religious feelings of devotees through social media posts.

A woman hailing from the city has alleged of not being allowed to enter a temple because of her caste.

Two Kerala women -- Bindu and Kanakadurga -- who are facing social boycott and exclusion for entering the Sabarimala shrine, told the Supreme Court on Wednesday about their resolve to enter the temple again on its opening on February 12.

A 39-year-old woman who dared to visit the Ayyappa shrine at Kerala's Sabarimala in defiance of religous customs earlier this month was not allowed intoher in-laws' house on Tuesday. The incident occurred nearly a week after Kanaka Durga's mother-in-law allegedly assaulted her, following which she had to be admitted to the Kozhikode Medical College...

One of the two women who walked into Kerala's Sabarimala earlier this month and became the first to defy the temple's ban on women of menstrual age - or between 10 and 50 - is in hospital after being attacked allegedly by her mother-in-law.

The Kerala police had arrested 1,369 protesters and took 717 into preventive custody until Friday morning in the wake of violence that erupted over the entry of two middle-aged women into the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala. This number includes a couple of CPI(M) workers who were arrested earlier today in connection with the death of a right-win...

A 46-year-old woman from Sri Lanka, who entered the Sabarimala temple last night, became the third woman of menstruating age in the temple's history to offer darshan to the shrine of Lord Ayyappa nestled in the Western Ghats, since Supreme Court ordered the end of a decades-old ban on women of menstrual age entering the shrine.

Eleven women, part of a fifty-member group, from Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal decided to undertake the Sabarimala pilgrimage as a large group, after more than a dozen women, between 10 and 50 age groups could not enter the temple since the Supreme Court's September 28 verdict, allowing all women to enter Sabarimala.

For the second month in a row after a Supreme Court order allowed women of all ages to enter the Sabarimala temple, the hill shrine closed for another two weeks this evening without a single woman of reproductive age crossing its gates

On a day when around 200 protesting devotees surrounded a women and clapped and chanted 'Ayyappa saranam', to prevent her from entering the Sabarimala shrine, suspecting her to be of menstrual age, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader allegedly violated key traditions at the Sannidhanam or the inner courtyard of the temple.

A video journalist was injured after protesting devotees targeted media persons at Sabarimala this morning. Hundreds of protesters gathered at Sannidhanam or the inner courtyard after a woman devotee, who the protesters thought was in the menstrual age, tried to enter the temple.

A 30-year-old woman who had reached the Pamba base camp with plans to enter the Sabarimala shrine turned back on Monday in the face of mounting protests by right-wing groups.

Activist Rahul Easwar, who is out on bail after he was arrested for allegedly blocking women at Sabarimala, has claimed many protesters were ready to shed their blood to close the temple, in case any woman managed to enter forcefully.

Congress leader Karti Chidambaram recently reacted to a video wherein a foreigner woman claims that she wasn't allowed to enter a temple in Kerala due to her nationality and religion.

Jiteshwari Devi, a member of the erstwhile royal family of Madhya Pradesh's Panna, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of violating temple rules by entering its sanctum sanctorum during Janmashtami celebrations, police said.

BSNL has ordered compulsory retirement for its employee and activist Rehana Fathima, who had attempted to enter the Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala, for her "intentional" act of outraging the religious feelings of devotees through social media posts.

A woman hailing from the city has alleged of not being allowed to enter a temple because of her caste.

Two Kerala women -- Bindu and Kanakadurga -- who are facing social boycott and exclusion for entering the Sabarimala shrine, told the Supreme Court on Wednesday about their resolve to enter the temple again on its opening on February 12.

A 39-year-old woman who dared to visit the Ayyappa shrine at Kerala's Sabarimala in defiance of religous customs earlier this month was not allowed intoher in-laws' house on Tuesday. The incident occurred nearly a week after Kanaka Durga's mother-in-law allegedly assaulted her, following which she had to be admitted to the Kozhikode Medical College...

One of the two women who walked into Kerala's Sabarimala earlier this month and became the first to defy the temple's ban on women of menstrual age - or between 10 and 50 - is in hospital after being attacked allegedly by her mother-in-law.

The Kerala police had arrested 1,369 protesters and took 717 into preventive custody until Friday morning in the wake of violence that erupted over the entry of two middle-aged women into the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala. This number includes a couple of CPI(M) workers who were arrested earlier today in connection with the death of a right-win...

A 46-year-old woman from Sri Lanka, who entered the Sabarimala temple last night, became the third woman of menstruating age in the temple's history to offer darshan to the shrine of Lord Ayyappa nestled in the Western Ghats, since Supreme Court ordered the end of a decades-old ban on women of menstrual age entering the shrine.

Eleven women, part of a fifty-member group, from Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal decided to undertake the Sabarimala pilgrimage as a large group, after more than a dozen women, between 10 and 50 age groups could not enter the temple since the Supreme Court's September 28 verdict, allowing all women to enter Sabarimala.

For the second month in a row after a Supreme Court order allowed women of all ages to enter the Sabarimala temple, the hill shrine closed for another two weeks this evening without a single woman of reproductive age crossing its gates

On a day when around 200 protesting devotees surrounded a women and clapped and chanted 'Ayyappa saranam', to prevent her from entering the Sabarimala shrine, suspecting her to be of menstrual age, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader allegedly violated key traditions at the Sannidhanam or the inner courtyard of the temple.

A video journalist was injured after protesting devotees targeted media persons at Sabarimala this morning. Hundreds of protesters gathered at Sannidhanam or the inner courtyard after a woman devotee, who the protesters thought was in the menstrual age, tried to enter the temple.

A 30-year-old woman who had reached the Pamba base camp with plans to enter the Sabarimala shrine turned back on Monday in the face of mounting protests by right-wing groups.

Activist Rahul Easwar, who is out on bail after he was arrested for allegedly blocking women at Sabarimala, has claimed many protesters were ready to shed their blood to close the temple, in case any woman managed to enter forcefully.