The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) on Sunday suspended senior servitor Ramakrushna Dasmohapatra for 30 days and barred him from entering the 12th-century Puri temple after he ...

Dasmohapatra, popularly known as Rajesh Daitapati, was suspended for 30 days by the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) on Sunday KOLKATA: The suspension of Ramakrishna Dasmohapatra ...

Ramkrishna Das Mohapatra, a senior sevayat (traditional priest) of the Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri, was on Sunday (May 11, 2025) suspended for 30 days following allegedly controversial remarks ...

Odisha’s Law Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan Friday asked the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) to probe into the controversy over the West Bengal government's portrayal of the newly ...

Servitors of the Puri Jagannath temple are protesting the use of 'dham' in the name of a newly-inaugurated Jagannath temple in West Bengal's Digha, apart from replicating rituals. Servitors ...

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.

The Odisha government has launched an investigation into the Digha Jagannath temple's adoption of the name 'Jagannath Dham,' sparking concerns among servitors of the Puri Jagannath Temple.

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 ...

An official statement by SJTA chief administrator Arabinda Padhee said Dasmahapatra had been suspended from all temple duties and prohibited from performing rituals at the Puri Jagannath Temple ...

Puri's titular king Gajapati Maharaja Divyasingha Deb on Monday claimed that the Jagannath temple in West Bengal's Digha cannot be called 'Jagannath Dham'. Deb, the chairman of the Shree Jagannath ...

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.

The newly inaugurated Jagannath Temple in Digha witnessed a record-breaking crowd on Sunday, clocking over 50,000 visitors in a single day, marking the highest footfall so far. Since its grand ...