Festivals

Bhubaneswar: A simple thread with little pom-poms to ones with cute buttons, sporting little beads, and subtle zari embellishments, these handcrafted loops and knots of a sacred thread- Rakhis by...

Mumbai: Ganpati festival, the most-awaited, for Mumbaikars is just round the corner. However, with the ongoing Coronavirus, the authorities are churning out ways to observe the festival in a safe...

Mumbai: Bollywood celebrity Anushka Sharma and rising star Kartik Aaryan have taken to their social media accounts to condemn China’s popular Yulin festival in which dogs are slaughtered. Aaryan shared...

Dhenkanal: Even as three chariots of the deities of Jagannath temple in Puri rolled down the Grand Road on Tuesday following the Supreme Court order, the rituals of the Rath Yatra...

Bhubaneswar: Raja is the most-awaited festival for girls in Odisha. Being a celebration of menstruation and womanhood, girls pamper themselves in different ways -- putting mehendi, wearing colourful bangles and...

Cuttack: The evaluation of the Matric examination papers in Odisha will be suspended across all centres for two days on account of Raja festival. In a notification, the Board of...

Bhubaneswar: The exclusive virtual dance festival ‘Happy For Hope’ successfully completed its 5th edition on June 7. ‘Happy For Hope’, India’s first ever online dance festival, had started on Mother’s...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of the three-day Raja Festival beginning from June 14, the Odisha government on Thursday relaxed the night curfew to enable the people to do their pre-festival shopping. The...

Puri: The celestial marriage of Shree Madan Mohan, the living representative of Lord Jagannath, and Devi Rukmini will be solemnised on Jagannath temple premises in Puri on Tuesday. The marriage...

Puri: While there is uncertainty over conducting the world famous Rath Yatra in Puri this year amid the COVID-19 outbreak, a peep into the history of the Jagannath temple reveals...