Puri

ONI Bureau: The Supreme Court will today hear a petition on alleged mismanagement and exploitation of devotees at Puri Jagannath temple. In this regard on Tuesday the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) filed an affidavit at the…

ONI Bureau:  Taking into account the upcoming Ratha Jatra festival on July 14 in Jagannath Puri, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) have decided to operate 184 special trains to Puri to avoid heavy rush of passengers during the occasion.…

ONI Bureau:  Lakhs of devotees throng at Puri to witness 'Devasnana Purnima' or 'Snana Yatra' (Bathing Festival) of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra today. Through a ritualistic procession, early in the morning, the…

ONI Bureau:  As many as 39 more Indian Cobra snakes were rescued from different parts of coastal districts today. As per report, as many as 20 Cobra hatchlings were rescued from Narilo village of Chakrada region in Kendrapara district…

Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra on Friday took charge as the chief administrator of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA), the governing body of Srimandir in Puri, Odisha. The senior IAS officer took his office after a darshan of the…

ONI Bureau: In a significant development, duplicate key of Ratna Bhandar's inner chamber recovered from a sealed envelope kept inside a locker of District record room, informed Puri Collector Arvind Agarwal today. A four-member team were…

At a time when the State Government and other stake holders of Sri Jagannath Temple in Puri have been criticised over the issue of missing keys of Sri Mandir’s Ratna Bhandar, the war of words between two senior leaders of BJP heated up the…

Puri Gajapati Dibyasingha Deb on Thursday blamed the Jagannath temple administration for the missing keys of "Ratna Bhandar" (treasury). Gajapati, in a letter released to a section of media here, said he failed to understand why he was…

The Odisha Government on Wednesday appointed Justice Raghubir Dash (retd) to head an inquiry into the circumstances leading to the 12th century keys of the "Ratna Bhandar" (treasury) of Jagannath Temple in Puri going missing. Chief…

In a major development, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday ordered a judicial probe into the missing of the Ratna Bhandar keys of Puri Srimandir in Odisha. As per the order, a retired High court judge will investigate the matter and…