Chief servitor of Puri's Jagannath Temple and other religious figures are strongly criticizing the West Bengal government for naming the newly constructed Jagannath temple in Digha as "Jagannath Dham.

In response to heightened India-Pakistan tensions, Odisha Police have significantly increased security at Puri and the Jagannath Temple. This includes deploying armed personnel, conducting anti ...

Servitors of the Puri Jagannath temple and eminent personalities from Odisha have expressed strong opposition to the renaming of the Digha Jagannath temple as “Jagannath Dham”. The Puri servitors feel ...

The Odisha government on Monday made it clear that the wood used for the construction of the idols of Shree Jagannath and his siblings at the newly inaugurated Digha Jagannath Temple was neither taken ...

For the past few days, a controversy has been simmering over allegations that surplus sacred timber from the Jagannath Temple in Puri was used to carve idols for the new Jagannath Temple in Digha.

In a letter to Shree Goverdhan Das Prabhu, chairman of ISKCON Governing Body Commission, Mayapur, the Gajapati Maharaja of Puri said that Shankaracharya Swami Nischalananda Saraswati Maharaj of ...

Nabakalebara' is a ritual held every 12 or 19 years, during which the wooden bodies of idols - Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra and Lord Jagannath - are changed at the Puri temple. 'Brahma' is a ...

Bhubaneswar, Puri's titular king, Divyasingha Deb, on Wednesday urged the ISCKON to convince the Digha temple trust board to remove the 'Jagannath Dham' name from the newly consecrated temple in ...

“The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) of Puri, Odisha, has issued a show-cause notice to a senior servitor over the alleged use of surplus sacred wood of the 12th-century shrine in ...

Gajapati Dibyasingha Deba, the titular head of the Puri royal family and a key religious authority for the Shree Jagannath Temple, has strongly objected to the West Bengal government’s reference ...

"Jagannath Dham is in Puri. There is no dispute in this; temples should be built in Digha, and temples should be built everywhere. Jagannath temple is there in many places in the world; there is ...

BHUBANESWAR: Amidst a growing controversy, the Gajapati Maharaja of Puri, Dibyasingha Deb, has categorically stated that the newly built Jagannath temple in Digha, West Bengal, cannot be referred ...