The festival of Thrissur Pooram in Kerala featuring elephants is in the midst of "jumbo" controversy. The large cultural festival, held annually at Vadakkunnathan Temple, has a celebrity elephant at ...

PALAKKAD: Elephant Thechikottukavu Ramachandran of Thechikkottukavu temple in Peramagalm in Thrissur had to be taken out of Chinakathoor pooram in Ottappalam on Saturday, citing safety measures. The ...

THRISSUR/T’PURAM: Thrissur Pooram, Kerala’s famed annual temple festival marked by colours, crowd and rhythm, was suddenly thrown into a crisis on Wednesday with the elephant owners announcing they ...

The Thrissur district administration on Saturday revoked its ban on parading a 54-year-old elephant, named Thechikottukavu Ramachandran, at the Thrissur Pooram festival that will begin on May 13. The ...

The Kerala High Court on Friday refused to interfere in the Thrissur district administration’s ban on parading a 54-year-old elephant, named Thechikottukavu Ramachandran, at the Thrissur Pooram ...

A controversial elephant in the southern Indian state of Kerala is back in the news after a local temple bid a record amount for his participation in its annual festival. BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is with much fanfare that Mukkola Mahaganapathy Temple here has announced the arrival of ‘superstar’ jumbo Thechikottukavu Ramachandran on May 1. “I don’t repeat history. I ...

Thrissur: The district captive elephant monitoring committee on Monday granted conditional nod to parade tusker Thechikottukavu Ramachandran owned by Thechikottukavu devaswom in festivals. “Permission ...