Controversy is brewing at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram after an audit report revealed that gold worth Rs 186 crore has gone missing from the temple. In the report submitted to the Supreme Court in March, former CAG Vinod Rai recommended a committee be formed to probe the irregularities. According to the report, the temple did not have a system of ascertaining the weight and purity of gold and […]

An expert panel inventorying assets at Kerala’s famous Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple has approached the Supreme Court for permission to open a hitherto-untouched vault, a controversial move that may trigger a fresh face-off between the judiciary and religious authorities. The 16th century temple that used to be the royal chapel of Travancore’s former rulers shot to fame five years ago when one of its six vaults (later coded as ‘A’) […]