Located near River Arani in the small town of Arani in Thiruvallur District is a large temple for God Siva, worshipped as Sampangi Pitchalishwarar. The quaint traditional story (Sthala-Puranam) of ...

Visakhapatnam: The Swarna Pushparchana ritual was conducted at the Simhachalam temple, where 108 gold Sampangi flowers were offered to the deity, Sri Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha. V. Trinadha Rao, the ...

Farmers growing flowers, including jasmine, sampangi and paneer rose, were seen abandoning the produce in dumper bins here at the wholesale flower market as they neither had buyers nor could preserve ...

On a hot weekday in Srirangam’s Sathara Veedhi, framed through the stone archway, is a scene that looks like something straight out of a Hollywood movie about ‘exotic’ India: stalls with rows and rows ...