The Odisha government has launched an investigation into the Digha Jagannath temple's adoption of the name 'Jagannath Dham,' sparking concerns among servitors of the Puri Jagannath Temple.

Odisha Police on Monday (May 12, 2025) deployed a special vehicle equipped with trained commandos around the 12th-century Puri Jagannath Temple to respond swiftly to any contingencies arising from ...

Odisha government plans to request West Bengal to stop referring to the Digha temple as "Jagannath Dham," sparking political disputes. Allegations of using Puri temple wood for Digha idols are ...

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday asked the West Bengal government to call the newly built Jagannath temple in East Midnapore Digha’s town by a different name ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Servitors of the Puri Jagannath temple and eminent personalities from Odisha have expressed strong opposition to the renaming of the Digha Jagannath temple as “Jagannath Dham”. The Puri servitors feel ...

The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) on Sunday suspended senior servitor Ramakrushna Dasmohapatra for 30 days and barred him from entering the 12th-century Puri temple after he ...

As tensions rise over the West Bengal government’s portrayal of a newly constructed temple in Digha as 'Jagannath Dham', the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) has launched an official probe ...

Bhubaneswar: In a decisive move to bolster security ahead of the grand Ratha Yatra festival, Odisha’s Director General of Police (DGP) Yogesh Bahadur Khurania visited the iconic Jagannath Temple ...

BJD Vice-President Debi Prasad Mishra has responded to the controversy surrounding the Digha Jagannath Temple and the formation of the party's new team. On the Digha temple issue, Mishra said that ...