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Puri: A four-member team of National Security Guard (NSG) commandos visited the Shri Jagannath Temple in Puri on Monday to carry out a routine security review as part of their annual calendar. Speaking to the media, Superintendent of Police (SP), Puri, Vinit Agrawal said, “A four-member team of NSG commandos …

Kendrapara: A priest sits in the cool sanctum sanctorum of a 300-year-old Odisha temple and prays to the resident deity as the VIP devotees – 10 resident cats – wait patiently near a bowl in which they will be served the prasad (offerings). No jostling among crowds or song and …

Badrinath: The portals of the Badrinath temple in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district were opened for devotees on Sunday after a six-month closure. Amid vedic chants, the doors of the temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu were opened at 6 am. Fifteen tons of flowers of various varieties adorned the temple and the …

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Ayodhya: Mahant Prem Das became the first head seer of Ayodhya’s Hanuman Garhi to step outside the revered temple’s premises in over 300 years as he led a procession to the Ram temple on Akshaya Tritiya festival. Das visited the newly consecrated Ram Temple in a grand ‘Shahi Juloos’ (royal …

Kolkata: A newly built temple dedicated to Lord Jagannath in the coastal town of Digha in West Bengal has become the centre of a political flashpoint between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s government and the BJP. The BJP has called Ms Banerjee a “fake Hindu”, stating that government funds cannot be …

Jaipur: The ruling BJP in Rajasthan on Sunday expelled its former MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja, who was recently at the centre of temple “purification” controversy, from primary membership of the party. The action has been taken against Mr Ahuja following a probe by BJP’s disciplinary committee, a party order said. …

Toronto: A temple in Canada’s Surrey has been defaced by vandals with pro-Khalistan graffiti at its entrance and the pillars, authorities said. The incident took place on April 19 at the Shree Lakshmi Narayana Mandir in Surrey, the temple said in a statement. “It is with deep sorrow that we …

Rudraprayag: The doors of Shri Kedarnath Dham will officially reopen on May 2, a spokesperson from the Shri Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee (BKTC) said on Friday. “This evening, the advance team of the Shri Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee reached Shri Kedarnath Dham. The doors of Shri Kedarnath Dham are going to open …

New Delhi: A popular fish market in south Delhi’s posh Chittaranjan Park neighbourhood is at the Centre of a massive political row after a viral video showed some people objecting to the sale of fish next to a temple and saying this was hurting their sentiments. The fish stalls in …