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Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi will personally hear public grievances Monday (June 30) from 10:30am onwards at Unit-2, Ashok Nagar here. According to a release from the Department of General Administration and Public Grievances, the session will be held on the premises of the...

Patna: In a shocking incident, passengers of the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Duronto Express were looted near Gaya, Bihar, in the early hours of Friday. According to an official of the Gaya Government Railway Police (GRP), a group of unidentified robbers targeted at least five coaches of...

Bhubaneswar: To ensure dignified transportation of the dead to their homes or cremation grounds and ease the emotional and financial burden on bereaved families, the state government will soon launch free hearse service ‘109’, whose blueprint is scheduled to be finalised July 2, officials in...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJD Friday condemned the alleged police excess against journalists, who were officially invited to Puri by the Odisha government to cover Rath Yatra. BJD spokesperson Lenin Mohanty, in a statement, said that the government had arranged a bus to take accredited working journalists...

Puri: Lord Jagannath devotees will get another chance to pull the chariots tomorrow as none of them reached their destination Friday after Lord Balabhadra's Taladhwaja chariot "got stuck while negotiating a turn, causing delays that prevented the others from arriving at Gundicha Temple, 2.6 kilometres...

Puri: Thousands of people pulled the ropes attached with chariots of Lord Jagannath and his siblings on a road from near the 12th-century shrine in Puri towards Shree Gundicha temple, around 2.6 km away, as the main part of Rath Yatra festival began Friday. Odisha...

Puri: After serving millions of pilgrims during the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj earlier this year, the Adani Group has announced that it has now extended its seva efforts to the famous Rath Yatra festival in Odisha's Puri. One of India’s most revered religious festivals,...

The grand Rath Yatra of Puri isn’t just a spiritual spectacle for the people of Odisha or India; it’s a global celebration. From the USA and UK to Russia, France, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Australia, and even atheist-majority China, the festival sees joyous observance among Jagannath...

The Jagannath Temple of Puri is widely believed to have been built in the 12th century by Anantavarman Chodaganga Deva of the Eastern Ganga dynasty. This is the version most of us learned in textbooks. But beyond what history books say, there are layered legends...

Puri: The Gajapati Maharaja of Puri, Divyasingha Deb Friday performed the 'Chhera Pahanra' ritual of sweeping the floors of the chariots of Lord Jagannath and his two siblings before the pulling of the chariots by devotees. Clad in a spotless white attire and carried in...