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.

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.

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Construction began a year later, but took 17 years to complete. The E K Nayanar government in 1987, too, played a significant role in the project’s progress. In 1991, then Ports Minister M V ...

Among them were Thiru. Marai. Vetrivel, Conference Treasurer, Dharmapuram Adheenam; His Holiness Sri-La-Sri Kayilai Masilamani Desika Gnanasambanda Paramacharya Swamigal, the 27th Mahasannidhanam ...

Dharmapuram Adheenam 27th Guru Mahasannidhanam Sri-La-Sri Kayilai Masilamani Desika Gnansambandha Paramacharya Swamigal said over 300 research papers on Saiva Siddhantha are being published during ...

His Holiness Sri-La-Sri Kayilai Masilamani Desika Gnanasambanda Paramacharya Swamigal, the 27th Mahasannidhanam of Dharmapuram Adheenam. "In the journey of progress, we must never forget that true ...