Tamil Nadu's Anti-Idol Wing successfully thwarted the auction of a stolen Kannappa Nayanar idol, which was scheduled to take place at the European Fine Arts Exhibition 2025 in the Netherlands.

Acting on the cops' inputs, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and local police took custody of the Kannappa Nayanar idol in March. Legal procedures to retrieve the idol are underway.

The Kannappa Nayanar metal idol was secured by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 23, 2025, after the intervention by the Idol Wing CID and the Archaeological Survey of India.

The idol, a metal representation of Kannappa Nayanar, was reported stolen from the Arulmigu Agneeswaraswamy Temple in Thirupugalur in Nagapattinam district in 2010. According to officials ...

Now, the echoes of history are about to find a voice. Chirakkal Kelu — better known as Murikkancheri Kelu Nayanar — who inspired Santosh Sivan’s movie ‘Urumi’, is set to be immortalised ...

According to an official release, the Kannappa Nayanar metal idol was stolen from Arulmigu Agneeswaraswamy temple at Thirupugalur in Nagapattinam district in 2010 by unidentified persons.

It is a unique posture of Kannappa Nayanar, and we worked closely with the idol wing to find possible matches. We used our advanced proprietary app developed by the India Pride Project ...

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Tuesday registered an FIR against five contractors, three Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials, three ...

He said the port was the brainchild of the 1996 Left government under EK Nayanar. “The dream of a port in Vizhinjam has been realised due to the determination of the LDF government. It has the ...

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The other two inscriptions in the Trilingual slab made similar statements. One gave praise to Allah and the other praised the god Tenavarai-Nayanar. To each god the Chinese offered similar lavish ...

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