Tag: Donation

Puri: On the one hand while the Srimandir administration is pulling up socks to implement the Supreme Court’s latest disciplinary reform barring servitors from accepting donations from devotees, the servitor associations at the 12th century shrine have shown displeasure over the move on the other. The development comes in the wake of a directive of […]

Balasore: A list of names has been written down on the walls of a village temple debarring them from offering prayers in Kalik village in Jaleswar block of Balasore. The villagers have been excluded for reportedly refusing to cough up a hefty donation charged by the village committee. The incident came to light when members […]

New Delhi: Social networking giant Facebook is donating $250,000 (nearly Rs 1.75 crore) for relief work in Kerala, which has been battered by torrential rains, floods and landslides, leaving over 300 dead amid massive destruction, the company said on Monday. Facebook will donate the money through the Community Resilience Fund for GOONJ — a Delhi-based […]

London: People become more generous if they do not feel too pressurised to help charities, suggests new research which contends that longer deadlines lead to more donations. The new research, published in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, may help charities around the world generate more funds for their work. “We know from other studies […]

Bhubaneswar: Following the declaration of Rs 1000 crore additional assistance to the cyclone Fani affected Odisha by the Centre on Monday, the State has now got helping hands from spiritual leaders, politicians, celebrities to cricketers. The ‘extremely severe cyclone’ Fani, which made landfall in Puri district of Odisha on May 3, caused unprecedented havoc in […]

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has contributed Rs 10 crore to the cyclone-hit Odisha for relief assistance to the affected people, an official statement said on Thursday. “The amount (Rs 10 crore) is being credited to the bank account of the Odisha Chief Minister’s Relief Fund in Bhubaneshwar,” said the statement from the Chief Minister’s Office […]

Bhubaneswar: With an aim to stop forceful collection of donation for puja celebrations, the Director General of Police B.K Sharma has instructed all concerned officials to take stringent action against the persons who are involved in such practice. According to sources, as many as 13 persons have been arrested in connection with five cases of […]