Thaipusam celebration eventually spread to other parts of the country, with the establishment of the Batu Caves temple in 1888 and the Kallumalai Temple in Ipoh, Perak in 1889. The Waterfall ...

For the past 18 years, barber and grocery store owner Saravanan Ayasamy, 44, has embraced a sacred duty – shaving heads for Thaipusam at the Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple in Batu Caves ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Over a million flooded Batu Caves for Thaipusam on Wednesday and Thursday. Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple trustee and information team coordinator Datuk N. Suresh Kumar said that ...

GOMBAK, Feb 10 (Bernama) -- Police have assured the safety and smooth traffic flow for the Thaipusam celebrations tomorrow, with personnel stationed around Batu Caves on round-the-clock duty. Bukit ...

GOMBAK, Feb 6 (Bernama) -- Seven roads around Batu Caves will be closed in stages from midnight this Sunday until Feb 14 in conjunction with the Thaipusam celebration. Selangor police chief Datuk ...

Thaipusam holds special importance in Malaysia, a Muslim-majority country with a significant Indian Tamil community making up about 7 per cent of the population. (Pic credit: AP) 3 / 9 ...

Thaipusam is marked with particular zest in ... Celebrations centred, as they have for more than a century, at the Batu Caves complex on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur.

Three Era FM announcers have apologised at the Batu Caves temple complex for their antics mocking the Thaipusam kavadi ritual. “From our side, Datuk, we truly… we are sorry,” said radio ...