The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) has issued a show cause notice to a senior servitor, Ramakrushna Dasmohapatra, regarding the alleged use of surplus sacred wood from the Puri temple to ...

The Odisha government on Monday made it clear that the wood used for the construction of the idols of Shree Jagannath and his siblings at the newly inaugurated Digha Jagannath Temple was neither taken ...

Harichandan said the probe seeks to uncover the truth about a claim that was made and ... sacred neem wood from the 2015 Nabakalebara ceremony at Puri’s 12th-century Jagannath Temple was used ...

The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration ... admitted that he had used the Puri temple’s sacred wood for making idols of the Dighta temple, and later he refuted the same in the Odisha media.

An Odisha government probe refuted claims that surplus wood from Puri Jagannath Temple was used for idols at the Digha shrine in West Bengal. Officials attributed the controversy to a servitor's ...

Odisha’s Law Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan Friday asked the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) to probe into the controversy over the West Bengal government's portrayal of the newly ...

Ramkrishna Das Mohapatra, a senior sevayat (traditional priest) of the Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri, was on Sunday (May 11, 2025) suspended for 30 days following allegedly controversial remarks ...

"I also urge the Odisha government and the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) to initiate talks over the matter. As per my understanding, Puri is the only place referred to as 'Jagannath ...

Bhubaneswar, The Shree Jagannath ... Puri temple’s sacred wood for making idols of the Dighta temple, and later he refuted the same in the Odisha media. Dasmohaptra claimed that he had made ...

Bhubaneswar: The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration ... the store room in the Puri temple where sacred wood are kept, and whether ‘Brahma’ installation was made at Digha temple.

“The Shree Jagannath ... the Puri temple’s sacred wood for making idols of the Dighta temple, and later he refuted the same in the Odisha media. “Dasmohaptra claimed that he had made the ...