A Shree Jagannath Temple Administration official said devotees will be required to wear "decent clothes" to enter the shrine.
A group of 52 Pakistani Hindu pilgrims on Monday thronged the holy cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi in Jammu and Kashmir.
Shigeru Ishiba is expected to prioritise strengthening Japan's military capabilities and fostering deeper international partnerships, particularly with India, with whom Japan shares significant strategic interests, explains Dr Rajaram Panda.
The two-century-old shrine located in the Khanyar locality of Srinagar was an epitome of Kashmir architecture laden with ornate Khatamband ceilings and elaborate carvings with grand chandeliers adorning the main prayer hall.
'People don't know about the immense pressures that come with this position -- every decision a judge takes affects real people and their lives.' 'This is not a job that one can take lightly.' A
On the Opposition's poll promise of statehood restoration, Shah said, "I want to ask Farooq Abdullah and Rahul Gandhi, who is going to restore the statehood. You cannot give it back. Why are you misleading the public?"
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi visited Kedarnath in Rudraprayag on Monday, November 6, 2023.
Schools, colleges, offices, shops and other commercial establishments remained closed in response to the strike called by Grand Mufti Mohammad Bashiruddin Ahmad, who termed the destruction of the shrine as the "worst conspiracy".
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath appeared to make a pitch in the assembly for a temple where a mosque stands now in Mathura, saying that Krishna Kanhaiya wouldn't have it any other way.
The two-century-old shrine located in the Khanyar locality of Srinagar was an epitome of Kashmir architecture laden with ornate Khatamband ceilings and elaborate carvings with grand chandeliers adorning the main prayer hall.
One person was killed and 15 others injured in a stampede in the hill shrine of Sabarimala prompting authorities to regulate flow of devotees and vehicles.
Official said the crackdown would be intensified in the coming days as government had resolved to eliminate militancy.
Nehwal expressed gratitude to the J-K administration, the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) and the security forces.
The Bajrang Dal has threatened to send a team of 100 volunteers to the Amarnath shrine on June 4 to take stock of the situation there. Earlier, a group of Bajrang Dal activists has tried to make their way to the shrine but were prevented by the Jammu and Kashmir police from doing so.
The shrine is believed to be the first halting point of the Sufi saint who has places of worship named after him across the Kashmir valley.
Two suspects held for shrine blasts in Bangladesh
The reopening of the Ratna Bhandar became a major political issue during the recently held assembly elections in the state.
Chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, sprint queen P T Usha and football legend Bhaichung Bhutia are among the prominent sports personalities invited for Monday's ceremony.
A public notice has been issued in Srinagar seeking information from general public about the fire incident that gutted the 200-year-old Dastageer Sahib shrine in the old city last week.
Proxy advisory firm IiAS has recommended that institutional investors should vote against Anant Ambani's appointment on the Reliance Industries board, citing his age as the reason. Is that why Anant and his dad, RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani, worshipped at the Dwarkadhish temple in Devbhumi Dwarka district, Gujarat, on Tuesday?
The Shri Mata Vaishnodevi Shrine Board, which is facing opposition to its decision to charge payment for priority in paying obeisance, on Wednesday, said the term 'paid darshan' is a misnomer and it is examining representations from organisations on the issue.
'The Hindu couple praying at an Islamic shrine illustrates what makes India work,' says writer Mayank Austen Soofi.
At least 30 people were killed and 100 injured in three explosions at a Sufi shrine near Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan's Punjab province, government officials said.
At least 45 people were killed and 110 wounded on Sunday in three bomb blasts near the revered Shiite shrine Sayyida Zeinab south of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media reported.
The key discovery of the oldest 'Buddhist shrine' at Buddha's birthplace in Nepal will throw more light on one of the world's earliest religions, archaeologists have said.
The stampede at the Naina Devi temple, killing 146 pilgrims, failed to deter devotees on Monday from undertaking their pilgrimage at the hill-top shrine even as the Himachal Pradesh government took steps to prevent such a tragedy. The temple officials said the devotees went ahead with the one km-long trek to the temple for their Shravan Navratra pilgrimage, but their numbers were somewhat reduced apparently because of the stampede and also the possibility of heavy rain.
The 'Takht Express' would be launched on December 23 from Chandigarh. It would cover six sacred destinations for Sikhs, including Amritsar in nine days, Rakesh Tandon, managing director of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation said in Beijing.
At least four people were killed and 12 others injured on Monday in a bomb blast outside a Sufi shrine in the central Pakistani city of Pakpattan, said the police. Two unidentified men parked a motorcycle outside the gate of the shrine and the blast occurred at 6.20 am, police quoted witnesses as saying.They said the explosive device was believed to have been planted in the motorcycle and was triggered by a remote control.
Life across Kashmir Valley remained disrupted for the fifth day on Friday due to a strike called by Grand Mufti of the state over gutting of the 200-year-old Dastageer Sahib shrine even as restrictions continued on movement of people in the old city.
Shah Rukh Khan and daughter Suhana visited the Sai Baba temple in Shirdi on Thursday, December 14.
The decision will be taken by the trust in consultation with Shankaracharya Vijayendra Saraswati and other seers, trust functionaries said.
Pandits, including women and children, converged at the temple, some 20 kms from Srinagar, from various far-off places including Delhi and Jammu, to offer special prayers on the occasion of Zyeshth Ashtami.
Guru Nanak Devji's 554th birth anniversary will be celebrated on Monday, November 27, 2023.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has denied involvement in Thursday's twin suicide attack on Lahore's Hazrat Data Gunj Bukhsh shrine, in which 43 people were killed and over 175 injured, on Friday.
The Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu is one of the targets on the radar of terrorists, the ministry of home affairs told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party vs ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam battle over live telecast of the Ayodhya Ram temple consecration in Tamil Nadu shrines reached the Supreme Court on Monday, with the apex court asking the authorities to act in accordance with the law and not based on any oral instructions.
The Gandhi siblings first drove from their hotel in Srinagar to the shrine of Ragnya Devi, popularly known as Mata Kheer Bhawani temple, in Tullamula area of the central Kashmir's Ganderbal district, the officials said.
People turn a corner and overhear secrets, men change stripes so as to acquire shades of villainy most convenient to advancing the plot, secondary characters confess to past sins just so that the leading women are absolved of all responsibility, notes Sreehari Nair.
The Jammu and Kashmir police arrested a Lashker-e-Tayiba terror module comprising six persons who were tasked to burn down religious shrines, raising suspicion that the famous Dastageer Saheb shrine could have been set on fire by the same group.
