In 1750, Maharaja Marthanda Varma offered Travancore to Lord Padmanabha, creating a kingdom ruled by God, not crown. Beneath ...

INDIAN officials step up security after finding at least $6.6bn worth of gold and silver jewellery, precious stones in a Hindu temple. The valuables have an estimated preliminary worth of over 500 ...

NEW DELHI — A fierce debate brewed Tuesday about what to do with billions of dollars worth of treasures in a popular 16th-century Hindu temple in southern India, even as the trove of newly revealed ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India — Investigators plan to pry open the final vault hidden deep under a centuries-old Indian Hindu temple as police guarded round the clock the shrine where billions of dollars ...

The vault is believed to have priceless treasures kept as reserve by the erstwhile rulers of Travancore as reserve that could be taken only in case of financial crisis.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A treasure trove of gold and silver jewelry, coins and precious stones said to be worth billions of dollars has been found in a Hindu temple in southern India, officials said on ...

A Hindu temple in southern India was opened Saturday to reveal treasures worth more than $11 billion, according to the state's chief secretary, AFP reports. The Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple was known ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India – After the treasure trove was unearthed in the Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple, the number of foreign and domestic tourists visiting the temple has increased manifold, making ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters) - A stream of bare-chested religious devotees step gingerly through metal detectors at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in southern India as armed commandos with ...

Archaeologists began digging for treasure beneath a 19th century fort in northern India on Friday, after a popular Hindu holy man said a former king appeared to him in a dream and told him of a nearly ...

Dedicated to Lord Vishnu in His Anantha Padmanabha form, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple is considered one of the richest and ...