Arrangements under way at Srirangam temple for Vaikunta Ekadasi festival
The Hindu
Arrangements are under way at the Srirangam Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple premises ahead of the Vaikunta Ekadasi festival that begins early next month. The thousand pillar mandapam is being spruced up an
Arrangements are under way at the Srirangam Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple premises ahead of the Vaikunta Ekadasi festival that begins early next month. The thousand pillar mandapam is being spruced up and decoration works are being carried out inside. Similarly, the installing of sheets for providing a canopy in the 'Manalveli' between the Thousand Pillar Mandapam and the Sesharayar Mandapam are also being executed by the temple authorities in connection with the festival.
Temple officials said the works were being carried out ahead of the annual festival which is to be held from December 3 to 24.

In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












