Tirupati: The first day of NGO’s strike, which commenced on Tuesday, hit the devotees of Lord Venkateswara as the RTC was forced to suspend the  services to Tirumala from Tirupati due to lack of coop

 
Yadgir: Temples, dedicated to gods and goddesses, are not often inspired by a child. But in the village of Gorunoor bordering Andhra Pradesh, a temple has been built in  memory of a dead child, who

A group of some 250 Pakistani Hindus were on Friday allowed to cross over to India for a pilgrimage after being detained at the Wagah land border crossing due to a controversy over reports that they p

In a move that would bring cheers to Hindus, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa has announced allocation of Rs 1.25 crore towards subsidy for the 2012-13 fiscal to enable Hindus to take up pilgrimage to

Three girls studying in Class VII went missing since Tuesday have surfaced and informed their worried parents they were on a “pilgrimage” to the Puttaparthi Satya Sai Baba temple. Police found them at

The Supreme Court on Monday reduced the government's discretionary quota seats for Haj pilgrims to 300 from the 5,050 seats, proposed by it.

A bench of justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash De

Two more pilgrims, including a woman, died en route 3,880-mt high Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas even as the number of devotees paying obeisance at the temple crossed the one lakh mar

Two more Amarnath pilgrims died due to cardiac arrest even as the number of pilgrims who paid obeisance at the 3,880 metre high holy cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas crossed 60,000.

Body of an

Travel agents Francis Xavier and Prashanth Chowdhary of Assets Tours and Travels, who were responsible for stranding 64 pilgrims in Egypt en route to the Holy Land of Jerusalem, were arrested by the N

Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa announced Tuesday a subsidy to Hindus undertaking pilgrimage to Mansarovar in China and Muktinath in Nepal and Christians going to Jerusalem.

She said her government w