Believed to be the ‘chowkidaar’ (guard) of Goddess Chinmastika, the five-ft idol of ‘Ravan’ is worshipped by the devotees visiting the ‘Chinmastika’ temple on Vijayadashami.

RANCHI: Jharkhand today witnessed a bandh for the fifth time in a week called by a religious organisation to protest against the damage to the idol at Chinmastika Temple in Rajrappa recently. The ...

Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Oct. 12 (ANI): When the nation was celebrating Vijayadasami by burning effigies of Ravana, his brother Kumbhakarna, and his son Indrajit (Meghnaad) as a mark of ...

Chinmastika is said to be an incarnation of Shakti. Commissioned in the 1860s by a local ruler, the temple remains closed for all but one day of the year. On Vijayadashmi ...

Jharkhand on Friday witnessed a bandh for the fifth time in a week called by a religious organisation Hanuman Mandal to protest against damage to Goddess Chinmastika Idol at Rajrappa last week ...

Baba Balak Nath temple in Hamirpur, the first Hindu shrine in the state to join the battle Covid-19, has donated Rs 5 crore to the chief minister’s Covid response fund.