The SJTA, in a statement, said that it would computerise land records of the temple and protect them as per the Uniform Policy of the state government and the provisions of the Shri Janganath ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deb, the chairman of the Shree Jagannath Temple Managing Committee, said that only the 12th century shrine in Puri can be called 'Jagannath Dham' as per scriptures. Deb, considered the first ...

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 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 ...

Gajapati Dibyasingha Deba, the titular head of the Puri royal family and a key religious authority for the Shree Jagannath Temple, has strongly objected to the West Bengal government’s reference ...

Sri Jagannath Temple Administration would apply for patents of terms such as ‘Srimandir’, ‘Jagannath Dham’, ‘Mahaprasad’, ...

as Jagannath Dham, Trinamool Congress has accused the BJP-led Odisha government of hypocrisy. The Odisha government has ordered an investigation into the temple's name and the alleged use of ...

Digha: Jagannath temple in Digha saw its highest single-day footfall of 50,000 visitors on Sunday. Over 10 lakh people have visited the temple complex in five days since its April 30 inauguration.