Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 16 -- The Sabarimala Temple in Kerala will open on Saturday for the annual pilgrimage season, two days after the Supreme Court referred a review petition on it own 2018 judgement, which allowed the entry of menstruating women into the shrine to worship Lord Ayyappa, to a larger bench.

The temple will open at 5 pm for the 41-day annual pilgrimage season."This is not a place for activism. This is not a place for activists like Trupti Desai to show their strength. We won't take them in. Let them go get a court order," Kerala Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran told media."The earlier situation was different, when there was a strong Supreme Court verdict allowing women of all ages to enter. That is not the situa...