pilgrims

Mandya: A high alert has been sounded in Mandya district of Karnataka as 84 devotees, who returned from Tamil Nadu after pilgrimage to Om Shakti temple, have tested positive for Covid-19, district authorities said on Friday. Another…

Riyadh: The Saudi government is employing the latest information technologies to help control the spread of Covid-19 during this year's Haj season. The Ministry of Haj and Umrah said on Sunday that it launched the "Haj smart cards" to…

The distance between Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara in Pakistan and Guru Nanak's followers is now ending, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, the last day of campaigning in Haryana.

The deceased have been identified as Bijay Kumar Jena of Jatani and Charan Biswal of Malipada, Khurda. Two others from Odisha, Sheshadev Jena (53) and Sarbeshwar Jena (55) have sustained critical injured in the accident and are undergoing…

The Kedarnath temple in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand was re-opened for pilgrims on Thursday.

Kumbh Mela is set to begin in Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad) from January 15, officials said here on Monday. It hosted over 12 crore holy men, ascetics and pilgrims in 2013 in the same place.

Praying for everyone’s happiness, health and prosperity, thousands of pilgrims, devotees and tourists thronged Puri and Konark to witness the first sunrise of the year from the beach and seek the Holy Trinity’s blessings for a good new…

In an unfortunate incident, as many as 42 pilgrims from Bhanjanagar in Ganjam have been left stranded in Uttarakhand due to intense snowfall. According to reports, the pilgrims were returning from Badrinath Dham after ‘darshan’, however…

As per the Record of Rights, Part – II prepared under the Puri Shri Jagannath Temple Administration Act 1952, Gajapati Maharaja is the principal and foremost servitor ‘adhyasevak’ of Shri Jagannath.

The annual Rath Yatra festival attracts lakhs of devotees to the pilgrim town of Puri. In a stretch of roughly three kilometers, a milling crowd of swarming pilgrims gather to pull the magnificent chariots from Srimandir to Mausi Maa…