Thaipusam celebration eventually spread to other parts of the country, with the establishment of the Batu Caves temple in 1888 and the Kallumalai Temple in Ipoh, Perak in 1889. The Waterfall ...

For the past 18 years, barber and grocery store owner Saravanan Ayasamy, 44, has embraced a sacred duty – shaving heads for Thaipusam at the Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple in Batu Caves ...

PETALING JAYA: Devotees and visitors will get free food at this year’s Thaipusam celebrations in Batu Caves, thanks to the Koperasi Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam. The spiritual organisation has ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 (Bernama) -- The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) will deploy 1,500 personnel to be stationed around the Batu Caves area to maintain order during the Thaipusam celebrations, which will ...

Thaipusam holds special importance in Malaysia, a Muslim-majority country with a significant Indian Tamil community making up about 7 per cent of the population. (Pic credit: AP) 3 / 9 ...

Thaipusam is marked with particular zest in ... Celebrations centred, as they have for more than a century, at the Batu Caves complex on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur.

Three Era FM announcers have apologised at the Batu Caves temple complex for their antics mocking the Thaipusam kavadi ritual. “From our side, Datuk, we truly… we are sorry,” said radio ...

Hundreds and thousands of Hindu devotees walked up Malaysia's most sacred Hindu cave on Tuesday at the annual Thaipusam festival. (AP video/Vincent Thian) Trudeau will stay as prime minister for ...

The visual for "Sivanar" was shot in the revered Batu Caves Murugan Temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the auspicious day of Thaipusam. Sid recounts the experience, saying, "This temple is so ...