Tag: Swargadwara

The holy crematorium Swargadwar in Puri reopened today (August 16) for all. Amid the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the cremation of bodies from outside the district at Swargadwar had been banned since April.

Puri: Mortal remains of litterateur Chandrasekhar Rath were consigned to flames today at Swargadwara in Puri in presence of his near and dear ones. Ahead of his cremation, personalities from all walks of life paid their last respects to the doyen of Odia literature in Bhubaneswar and Puri. Rath was recently selected by the Government […]

Puri: Cases of dishonour to dead bodies are becoming frequent in the State with another such incident occurring in Puri late last night. A resident of Balisahi area took the dead body of his minor daughter from the district hospital to the Swargadwara in a trolley rickshaw due to alleged non-availability of Mahaprayan or the […]

Puri: At a time when the State Government is planning to go for a makeover of the existing Swargadwara by carrying out mega expansion, a controversy over a proposal to build another crematorium in the city is delaying the prospects, which many feel is being done purposefully. After the plans of Swargadwar expansion were outlined, […]

The district and sessions court here today stayed the order of the civil judge court (junior division) directing the local municipal authorities to remove the encroachments and construction, including the ‘samadhisthal’ (cremation place) of former chief minister Biju Patnaik on the premises of Swargadwar, within three months

Puri: A local civil court ordered the district administration and Puri municipality to remove the Samadhi of former Chief Minister Biju Patnaik from Swargadwar here within three months. Hearing a petition regarding unlawful constructions at the holy burial ground on December 27 last year, the civil court asked collector Aravind Agrawal and the civic body […]