There is a certain old world charm to Kanchipuram. At around an hour's drive from the Chennai airport at Meenambakam, this place is known for its temples and silk sarees. To this day people from all ...

Kanchipuram was the Pallava capital from 3rd – 9th century CE, while Cholas ruled it from 10th to 13th century CE, followed by the Vijayanagara dynasty from 14th to 17th century CE. Under these ...

CHENNAI: The consecration of the 1,000-year-old Sri Ekambaranathar temple in Kancheepuram will be held on December 8, HR&CE ...

Kanchipuram temple in Chennai is set to receive nearly 1 lakh devotees for a rare darshan of the Aththi Varadar deity, which reopens today after a gap of 40 years at Devarajaswamy Temple. The 12-foot ...

Minjur, close to Chennai, was known as Mauncharanyam (in Samskrit, Mauncha is a type of grass and Aranyam is forest) as this variety of grass once grew here in abundance. Minjur is also called Vada ...

KANCHIPURAM: A visit to this holy city by Srimad Rangaramanuja Andavan Swamigal, head of the centuries old Srimad Andavan Mutt in Srirangam, which usually passes off unnoticed by the laity, has this ...

FILE: Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi (L) and priest Vijayendra Saraswathi at the Kanchi Mutt temple in Kancheepuram (Agence France-Presse photo) Chennai: The acquittal of Kanchi ...

Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswati will consecrate the newly constructed Sri Vijaya Rajarajeswari temple at Pedapulipaka near here on February 25 at 7.54 a.m. The pre-consecration rituals, including ‘yaga ...

Amidst reverberating Vedic chants by priests and melodious sounds of the nadaswaram, kumbhabhishekam was performed at Radhakrishna temple constructed at Labbipet here on Saturday. The ceremony, at ...