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Tight security for deities’ return journey Post News Network Puri: The district and Srimandir administration have made elaborate arrangements to ensure smooth conduct of the Bahuda Yatra of the deities that will be performed in the Holy City sans devotees for the second year in a row. In order to ensure that servitors and policemen involved in pulling of the chariots don’t feel the pinch of the soaring daytime temperature, they will be served with ORS drinks. This apart, Fire Services and PHEO authorities have been asked to sprinkle water on the road in regular intervals, Sh...

Suna Besha of Holy Trinity held in Puri UNI Puri: The Rajarajeswar Besha ritual, popularly known as Suna Besha of Lord Jagannath and his siblings Devi Subhadra and elder brother Lord Balabhadra was held in Puri Wednesday. As part of the ritual, the Holy Trinity appeared on their chariots in front of Srimandir Singhadwara adorned in gold jewellery. The ritual, however, was observed sans devotees this year like last year amid Covid guidelines. The Trinity who returned from their nine-day sojourn from Gundicha temple to their original abode- Jagannath temple here yesterday appeared...

Odisha: 2-day curfew in Puri  The Puri administration shut all hotels, lodges, dharmasalas and guesthouses along the Grand Road on Sunday as preparations began for a devotee-less 'Bahuda Jatra' or return car festival of Lord Jagannath on July 20, officials said. The administration decided to impose a curfew in Puri town in Odisha from 8 pm on July 19 till 8 pm on July 21, they said.  Some devotees defied curfew and watched the Ratha Jatra of the trinity -- Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra and Lord Jagannath, from rooftops of hotels and lodges, they said. Keeping in view that experience, the...

JAMSHEDPUR: For the second consecutive year, devotees witnessed muted Rath Yatra celebrations in different parts of the Kolhan division on Monday. Keeping the Covid-19 pandemic in mind, organising committees observed the rituals in a low-key manner in the presence of only a handful of festive enthusiasts, temple volunteers and servitors. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)-run Jagannath temple Rath Yatra in Golmuri saw a small group of people turning up at the chariot-pulling event. “Although, chariot movement was confined to a 10-metre radius within the temple co...

GUMLA: Simdega district, which shares borders with Odisha and has the oldest history of Rath Yatra in Jharkhand dating back to the 14th century, did not celebrate the festival for the second consecutive year on Monday because of the restrictions put in place to control Covid-19. In the 14th century, a descendant of the Puri king shifted to Bolwa and later his sons settled at Udte Keshalpur and finally at Birugarh in Simdega which shares the boundary with Odisha. “It is the second consecutive year when the Rath Yatra couldn’t be held in Simdega. Only prayer was offered by temple priests,...