As one group of litigants pursue a legal campaign to light a lamp at a specific stone pillar for the deity Murugan, marking Karthigai at Tamil Nadu’s Thiruparankundram hill temple, the focus has ...
In a significant ruling ahead of the Karthigai Deepam festival on December 3, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has ordered that, apart from the customary lighting of the festival lamp near ...
Madurai: The stone pillar situated atop the Thiruparankundram hill near Madurai was built by Jain saints and it does not belong to the Hindus, the Tamil Nadu govt told Madras high court, quoting books ...
Arguments concluded on Thursday in the writ appeal related to the long-running dispute over lighting of a lamp at Thiruparankundram hill, with the Tamil Nadu government strongly contesting a single ...
New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu government has told the Madurai bench of the Madras high court that the stone pillar on Thirupparankundram hill which is presently in the centre of a controversy fuelled by ...
MADURAI: The state government told the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday that the ancient stone pillar or ‘deepathoon’ located atop the Thiruparankundram hill belongs to Jains and not ...
What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. When restrictions on animal sacrifice in Thirupparankundram must continue until a competent civil court settles the matter, the same should apply to ...