The Kapaleeswarar temple in Mylapore on Tuesday got a silver covered wooden elephant vahanam with a howdah on top to be used in processions. A total of 130 kilos of silver was used in its making ...

The Airavateshvara Temple, built during the 11th-12th century in Tamil Nadu, features an ancient optical illusion. The carvings depict an elephant and a bull sharing the same head. Observing which ...

Lakshmana Temple is a huge stone temple which is dedicated to Lord ... The temple is beautifully decorated with patterns of elephants and horsemen carrying out parade and there is a small idol ...

In a historic and compassionate decision, the Sree Kumaramangalam Subramanyaswamy Temple in Kumarakom, Kerala, has put an end to its 120-year-old tradition of parading elephants during its annual ...

THRISSUR, India — It flaps its ears and squirts water from a waving trunk, but this elephant is a life-size mechanical replica rolled out to replace the endangered animals in India's Hindu temples.

In an incident that sparked outrage, an elephant with festering wounds was paraded for nearly three kilometres during a temple festival at the Sree Sundareswara Temple at Talap in Kannur on Sunday ...

It flaps its ears and squirts water from a waving trunk, but this elephant is a life-size mechanical replica rolled out to replace the endangered animals in India's Hindu temples. Workers assemble ...

Margao: The newly-constructed Shree Saptakoteshwar Temple at Fatorpa marked its completion on Saturday with ‘purnahuti’ and ‘sarvajanik prarthana’ ceremonies, making it only the second ...

It was donated by the Voice for Asian Elephants Society, which said it would aid "cruelty-free temple traditions". Campaigners from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India say the ...