The pilgrim town woke up to the shouts of Haribol and Jai Jagannath as priests went through rituals preparing the deities for the festival, one of the most important in the Oriya almanac.

The largest chariot, Nandighosa, belongs to Lord Jagannath. Taladhwaja and Darpadalana are the chariots of Lord Balabhadra ...

The Rath yatra sees the procession of three independent chariots for the three deities of Jagannath, Balarama and Shubadra. Hence this event is also called the festival of chariots. The names of ...

On July 7, a grand Rath Yatra for Lord Jagannath will be held at several temples in Patna. Preparations are underway in all temples for this event. The chariots and temples are decorated with ...

Ditties of Shree Jagannath temple and Hindu devotees wait to pull the three chariots (L) on the occasion of the annual Shree Jagannath chariot festival in Puri, 65 km from Bhubaneswar, on June 23 ...

In a historic first, the Puri Jagannath Rath Yatra was held without the lakhs of devotees who gather to pull the chariots. While the Supreme Court had initially put a hold on this year’s Rath ...

Puri: The stage is set for ‘Ratha Katha Anukula’, the initiation ceremony for chariot construction for Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra in Odisha’s Puri, on the occasion of Saraswati Puja or Sri Panchami ...

The date for the auspicious festival of Basant Panchami (Saraswati Puja) is now confirmed as February 2, resolving earlier ...