Mumbai: Millions of Lord Ayyappa devotees have started preparations for the annual pilgrimage to the deity's mountaintop shrine in Sabarimala, Kerala. The pilgrimage season started on November 16 ...

The Ayyappa devotees relinquished their ‘deeksha’ at Gollapudi Ayyappa temple and others as part of the occasion. About 2,000 devotees offered their ‘irumudi’ at the Gollapudi Ayyappa ...

The deeparadhana by adorning Lord Ayyappa with the ‘Thiruvabharanam' (golden jewellery) at 6.43pm and the darshan of ‘makarajyothi' provided spiritual bliss for the devotees, who elevated the ...

Hubballi: KMC-RI Hospital reported the deaths of two Ayyappa devotees, Nijalingappa Bepuri,59, and Sanjay Savadatti,17, following a gas cylinder explosion at Unakal's Achchhava Colony, Hubballi ...

Dayananda Shetty, who runs a hardware shop at Kudlu near Kasaragod town, flicked the chain valued at Rs 2.6 lakh..gold chain ...

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara also visited the hospital and enquired about the condition of the devotees injured in the incident.

The humid climate and the long queues did not seem to dampen the spirit of Ayyappa devotees, who chanted the "Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa" mantra, carrying the 'irumudi kettu' (the traditional bundle ...

The number of devotees who reached Sannidhanam (the main temple in Sabarimala) on Tuesday to offer prayers to Lord Ayyappa at the hill shrine of Sabarimala on the occasion of Makaravilakku reached ...

On the occasion of Sankranti, a large number of Ayyappa devotees offer prayers at the temple, wearing the traditional bead chains around their necks.

Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan offers prayers at Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain ...