Women activist Trupti Desai was allegedly asked by police to wear a saree during her visit to the Mahalaxmi temple on Wednesday.(HT file photo) An officer at Rajwada police station in Kolhapur ...

KOLHAPUR: The annual auction of the Shalu or the silk saree presented to Goddess Mahalaxmi on the auspicious day of Dussehra by Lord Balaji, Tirupati Devasthan Tirumalla will be conducted on Sunday.

Devotees will only be allowed to take darshan and no offerings of saree ... Mahalaxmi is taken to the Temblai temple, where 'Kohla pujan' is done in the presence of royal family of Kolhapur.

Breaking an age-old convention, a few women were today allowed to enter the inner sanctum of the historical Mahalaxmi temple in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district. In the wake of Bombay High Court ...

After the Shani Shingnapur temple opened its doors to female devotees last week, Kolhapur district’s Mahalaxmi temple followed suit on Monday. The temple, which did not allow women to enter its ...