A PORTION of waste generated during the Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves temple this year will be sent to recycling centres instead of ending up in landfills. Two non-governmental organisations ...

JOHOR BARU: State police chief Comm M. Kumar joined thousands of Hindu devotees here at the Sri Subramaniar Temple to participate in the Thaipusam celebration. The crowd took part in the ...

Personally, I believe the Thaipusam Kavadi fiasco that involved a trio of Era FM DJ’s was an “accident”. What I mean by an accident is that like a traffic accident, it is a negative event that ...

During the Committee of Supply debate for the Manpower Ministry, Workers’ Party Member of Parliament Associate Professor Jamus Lim called for the reintroduction of Thaipusam as a public holiday and ...

Workers’ Party (WP) MP Jamus Lim recently reignited the debate on whether Thaipusam should be reinstated as a public holiday. Thaipusam was initially a recognised holiday but was removed in 1968 when ...

Thaipusam, despite its official non-recognition as a holiday, remains a spiritually significant and joyous affair for Hindus in Singapore, said MP Jamus Lim. Speaking in parliament on Thursday ...

The year was 2010 and it was an epic journey for these men. The map they drew out that day, now called the Thaipusam trail is trekked by thousands of devotees in California. “Planning the trail ...

“An overflow of follow-up patients occurred because they were unable to attend their appointments on the previous Tuesday, which was a public holiday for Thaipusam,” said the department in a ...