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The annual Jagannath Puri Rath Yatra is all set to start on July 7. While President Droupadi Murmu is going to witness the chariot-pulling ritual, the arrangements are made to provide the best experience to the devotees.
All the four gates of the Jagannath temple in Puri were closed since the Covid pandemic. The newly formed Odisha government will also set up a corpus fund for immediate requirement of the 12th-century shrine.
Earlier today, Mohan Charan Manjhi was chosen as the next chief minister of Odisha. With Manjhi Odisha is going to have a new CM face after 24 years. BJD leader Naveen Patnaik ruled the state since March 2000.
A group of devotees were celebrating the festival with firecrackers when a spark hit the stack, causing an explosion. This created chaos and some people jumped into the Narendra Pushkarinee, a local waterbody, to save themselves.
All government schools, colleges, and offices will be closed today in Odisha. The Odisha government has released an official statement regarding this. Scroll down to read more.
Police said that the number of devotees visiting the temple on New Year's Day this time was double as compared to last year.
The man who filed the complaint at the Jajpur Road police station via the citizen portal, alleges that the dialogues in the film portrayed the Gods in poor light and disrespected them.
The deceased was identified as Shivaram Patra, son of a temple priest from Harachandi Taluchha Sahi of the pilgrim town.
“The local economy is mostly dependent on the temple. This apart keeping in view the sentiments of the people and slight decline in COVID-19 cases, it has been decided to reopen the temple for public from February 1,” said Puri district collector Samarth Verma.
Odisha's COVID-19 tally rose to 9,82,181 on Wednesday as 1,315 more people tested positive for the infection, while 66 fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 6,168, a health official said.
'Chandan Yatra' and 'Akshaya Tritiya' rituals marking the beginning of preparations for Lord Jagannath's annual Rath Yatra, which are held outside the Puri temple, were conducted inside the premises of the shrine on Sunday and in absence of devotees in view of the coronavirus outbreak.
Lakhs of people have congregated in Puri for a glimpse of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra on the Bada Danda (Grand Road) as they travel from their home -- the 12th century Jagannath temple to the Shree Gundicha temple, home of their aunt.
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