RANCHI: Preparations for this year’s Jagannath Rath Yatra began on Sunday with the ceremonial 'Snan Yatra Mahotsava' organised at the Jagannath temple in Ranchi. Lord Jagannath will be in exile ...

On the auspicious occasion of Rath Yatra, a crowd of devotees gathered at the historic Jagannath temple in Dhurwa on Friday. The grand Rath Yatra( Chariot) of Lord Jagannath, his brother Lord ...

Lord Jagannath’s temple in Ranchi. File photo The management committee of the three-and-a-half-century-old Jagannathpur temple in Jharkhand’s Ranchi, for the first time, has entrusted a private firm ...

To enter the Jagannath Temple, one must ascend 22 stairs, each considered sacred. The third step from the bottom holds special, and somewhat ominous, significance.