Rs 1542-Cr Plan Outlay for Puri

The Nava-kalevera ceremony at Lord Jagannath temple Can I climb the Ratha and touch Jagannath? Ratha Yatra Preparations at Jagannath Puri PURI: The District Plan Monitoring Committee on Saturday passed a comprehensive district plan outlay of `1542 crore for the financial year of 2014-15. In wake of the ensuing Nabakalebara Festival of the Trinity,...

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Sanwar Lal Jat: Nepal’s Sarda river identified to be linked with Yamuna

Revival of Ganga and Yamuna - the struggle goes on Spiritual Significance of Ganga and Yamuna New Delhi, Dec 22 (PTI) The Sarda river in Nepal has been identified for connecting with river Yamuna as the Sarda-Yamuna link, Rajya Sabha was informed today. Besides, Sarda, also known as Mahakali there, the Ghaghra river...

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Revival model for Yamuna may vary from Sabarmati

Revival of Ganga and Yamuna - the struggle goes on Spiritual Significance of Ganga and Yamuna The restoration plan for the dirty Yamuna may not be a complete copy of the Sabarmati river front development project in Gujarat as the two rivers’ ecological models are different, say Delhi environment department officials who visited Ahmedabad...

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Devotees throng Jagannath Temple for ‘Pahili Bhoga’

ISKCON Bangalore Temple The Nava-kalevera ceremony at Lord Jagannath temple Can I climb the Ratha and touch Jagannath? Ratha Yatra Preparations at Jagannath Puri Thousands of devotees waited patiently for ‘Pahili Bhoga’ (first offering) of the Trinity in Odisha’ pilgrim town of Puri on the occasion of Dhanu Sankranti on Tuesday. The special offering...

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Jagannath Temple Temporary staff on dharna Demanding wage hike, Regularisation

Temporary employees of the Shree Jagannath Temple in Odisha’s pilgrim town of Puri are on an indefinite dharna in front of the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) office beginning today demanding fulfillment of their two-point charter of demands. The 243 temporary employees of the temple are demanding regularization of their jobs and a hike in their...

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Russian sorry for taking Puri temple snaps

BHUBANESWAR: A tourist from Russia had a harrowing time while taking photographs of Jagannath Temple in Puri by climbing atop a watchtower on Friday. The 28-year-old Russian, Sergei Ivanov, who identified himself as a civil engineer from Moscow apologized to police and was let off. While the 12th century shrine is off limits to non-Hindus, there is restriction on visitors to climb the watchtower, meant for police. At present, it is being...

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Cracks Found in Jagannath Temple, ASI Asked to Repair

PURI: Two big cracks have been found in the ‘jagamohan’ of the 12th Century Jagannath temple. The cracks were noticed on the north east wall and roof of the structure during the ongoing de-plastering work. A technical committee appointed by the State Government to look into repair and renovation work being carried out by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)...

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Non-Hindu pays fine for entering temple

Odisha Channel BureauKendrapara, Dec 15: A non-Hindu was allegedly forced to cough up Rs 10,000 penalty for ‘trespassing’ into 300-year-old Baldevjew temple here.Daily rituals of the deity were affected yesterday after a section of servitors identified a man from a minority community who had made his way into the temple.Non-Hindus are barred from gaining entry into the Baldevjew temple as it is the case in Puri Jagannath temple.The ‘bhog’ (offering)...

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Nabakalebara Panel Reviews Infra Works

PURI: Head of the Nabakalebara Infrastructure Supervision Committee (NISC), Maheswar Mohanty, on Saturday reviewed the progress made into various infrastructure works being implemented for the Nabakalebara of the Trinity. The Nava-kalevera ceremony at Lord Jagannath temple In a meeting with the officials of Roads and Building, PHD, Electricity and NHAI, Mohanty...

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President pays obeisance at Puri's Jagannath temple

President Pranab Mukherjee today visited the famous Jagannath temple here and performed 'puja' at the 12th century shrine. The President was here as part of the last leg of his three-day visit to West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha. Special arrangements were made for his visit at the famous temple which gets a large number of devotees daily, officials said. Authorities restricted general public from visiting the temple for some time to...

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Odisha to make Documentary on Nabakalebara

BHUBANESWAR: The tourism department has decided to make a documentary on Nabakalebara (creation of new idols of deities), scheduled to be observed at the Jagannath Temple in Puri in July 2015. The department will engage a reputed filmmaker for it. "Selection of filmmaker or production house will be made in a transparent manner. We are all set to float an expression of interest for it," said tourism secretary Arvind Padhee on Wednesday. "The film...

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