The Odisha government is moving to trademark key terms tied to Puri’s Jagannath Temple to protect its identity. The move ...

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee offers prayer to Lord Jagannath at the newly inaugurated Jagannath Temple in Digha on April 30 (@MamataOfficial/PTI FILE) “Priests at Hindu temples are above ...

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 ...

Bhubaneswar: A day after being removed, the 'Jagannath Dham' signage has been reinstalled at the Jagannath Temple in Digha, West Bengal, amid controversy over the naming. The Odisha Government and the ...

Mamata Banerjee’s outreach to the Hindu community in the form of the mega Jagannath temple inauguration in the coastal town of Digha is clearly aimed at the 2026 Assembly election in West Bengal.

The government has also decided to write the West Bengal government, requesting that the Digha Jagannath Temple not be referred to as “Jagannath Dham” and the Digha sea not be called “Mahodadhi”—a ...

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 ...

BHUBANESWAR: Amidst a growing controversy, the Gajapati Maharaja of Puri, Dibyasingha Deb, has categorically stated that the newly built Jagannath temple in Digha, West Bengal, cannot be referred ...

He requested the West Bengal government to refrain from referring Digha Jagannath Temple as Jagannath Dham. "The Odisha government expresses its deep concern over naming of the recently ...

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 ...

The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) of Puri has issued a show cause to a senior servitor over the alleged use of surplus sacred wood of the 12th-century shrine in crafting idols in a ...