Temples  

People wear traditional attire and offer prayers at temples, while the day is marked with feast and festivities, including cultural programmes. Heavy rush is witnessed at temples, including the famous hill shrine of Lord Ayappa at Sabarimala and Sree Krishna Temple at Guruvayur

Prayers to establish contact with Vikram Lander: Devotees offered special prayers at Sri Kailasanathar Temple in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. It is one of the nine temples dedicated to Navagraha (nine planets). 
 

An explosion near a temple in Thiruporur has created panic in the area after one person died and four others were injured. A portion of the temple's compound wall and that of the neighbouring structure were damaged due to the explosion

Temples are being built for politicos and actors in the state of Tamil Nadu at the cost of farmers and the poor. A group belonging to the SC are to build a temple for late DMK chief M Karunanidhi. Watch how people make these political figures God-like on MyNation's Simplified By.

Taking to Twitter, the BJP in Andhra Pradesh had said that the chief minister fooled voters by visiting temples and likened him to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by saying that it was a ploy to woo voters. However, as the truth emerged, the BJP withdrew its claims and said that few party leaders mistook an electric lamp for a traditional ceremonial lamp.

Tight security has been arranged at the Sawan Jhoola Mela (swing festival) being held in 7,000 temples in and around Ayodhya, following the scrapping of Article 370 that denies Jammu and Kashmir special status hence forth.

 
 

Karnataka minister HD Revanna visited as many as six temples in Udupi district alone on Sunday (July 14). The visit is seen as a move to propitiate Gods to help the coalition sustain
 

A youth who was trying to take a photo of the deity at the Kanchipuram Varadaraja Temple was allegedly beaten to death by policewomen who were guarding the sanctum sanctorum.
 

According to the FIR registered against the suspected ISIS sympathisers, they had conspired to carry out suicide attacks at temples, churches and places in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, where people gathered in large numbers.

The ruling AIADMK government has decided to turn to the Gods by organising pujas and yagnas on June 22 in all the major temples across Tamil Nadu. While deputy Speaker Thambidurai and former MP Jayavardhan were seen in the puja organised in Kurungaleeshwar Temple in Koyambedu, minister SP Velumani was present in Porur's Patteeshwar Temple.
 

Narendra Modi embodies India’s new developmental ethos at an economic level but also its new pride in its profound civilisation. He has captured both India’s glorious past and its vast future potential. He is at home in Shiva temples in Varanasi and Kedarnath and at the same time with the military throughout the country, and with technocrats from throughout the world

A group of rationalists demanded that the government should implement an anti-superstition law and stop promoting as well as encouraging superstitious practices like conducting a special puja for rains.

The Karnataka Muzrai Department has directed temples under its purview to conduct religious rituals (Parjanya Japa) to appease the rain gods as several parts of Karnataka have been reeling under the effect of drought without sufficient water to drink
 

Karnataka government under the leadership of Siddaramaiah had passed the anti-superstition bill. But ironically now, the Kumaraswamy-led Karnataka government has given special instructions to conduct special pooja in more than 30,000 temples spending Rs 10,000 for each temple to appease the rain gods!

The Muzrai Department in Karnataka has issued a circular to the temples under its limits, asking them to perform Parjanya, a ritual to appease the “rain god” after most districts in the state were declared drought-hit.