Pilgrimage

Chandigarh: The governments of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on Saturday banned Kanwariyas carrying hockey sticks and baseball bats and playing loud music during their annual pilgrimage dedicated to Lord Shiva. Senior officers of Haryana's…

Senior servitor of Puri Jagannath temple Haladhar Das Mohapatra will lead a team of 96 members for the Banajaga Yatra, the first chapter of the Nabakalebara festival, 2015. It was decided in a meeting of the Shri Jagannath Temple…

For the first time, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has included Odisha in the list of vulnerable places to be targeted by terrorists. Just ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit to India, the IB has issued terror alerts for four states -…