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 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 ...

A wave of anger and resentment has swept through the old Housing Board Colony in the cantonment area of Agar Malwa district following an incident of stone pelting at a local Shiv temple on ...

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 ...