DESPITE tighter standard operating procedures (SOP) due to the pandemic, hundreds of devotees turned up to fulfil their vows and conduct prayers on Thaipusam day this year.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 ― Hundreds of Hindu devotees marked Thaipusam at the Sri Subramaniar Temple in Batu Caves here this morning even as the threat of the Omicron Covid-19 variant loomed large. The sounds from the tavil (Indian drum) and nadaswaram (Indian trumpets) accompanied the devotees.
GEORGE TOWN: A total of 1,300 enforcement personnel members including police, Federal Reserve Unit, Rela, Civil Defence and Penang Island City Council will monitor the three-day Thaipusam celebration in Penang.
GEORGE TOWN: Thaipusam preparations in Penang have become chaotic with a change of standard operating procedure (SOP) that has caught the organisers unawares.
GEORGE TOWN: The elderly, the ill and those with comorbidities have been urged not to visit the Arulmigu Sree Balathandayuthapani Waterfall hilltop temple during the peak of the Thaipusam celebrations.