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 ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Over a million flooded Batu Caves for Thaipusam on Wednesday and Thursday. Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple trustee and information team coordinator Datuk N. Suresh Kumar said that ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

National Unity Minister Aaron Aro Dagang criticized the now-removed video by Malay-language radio station Era FM mocking the Thaipusam ritual dance as a contradiction to the nation’s founding ...

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 ...