Light vehicles to take visitors atop Dhauli in Bhubaneswar

world heritage peace pagoda at Dhauli is facing a threat to its ecology, thanks to felling of trees and unrestricted shifting of sand from the Daya river, stated local sarpanch Rabi Maharana. The peace pagoda stands in a lush green periphery upon ...

tourism department plans to set up an ambitious 'theme centre' on the historic Kalinga War near the Peace Pagoda at Dhauli.The Kalinga war was fought by Emperor Asoka of the Mauryan dynasty near the Daya river. It was believed that over 1,10,000 ...

Eleven National League for Democracy (NLD) and 88 Generation Peace and Open Society (88GPOS) members who stood accused of trespassing were acquitted of the charges against them on Thursday. The allegations related to a protest in favour of ...

A grand ceremony was held at Bai Dinh Pagoda in the northern province of Ninh Binh on January 23 to pray for world peace and the country's prosperity. The ceremony saw the participation of thousands of Buddhist monks, nuns and followers and ...

Dhauli hills are located on the banks of the river Daya, 8 km south of Bhubaneswar in Odisha. It is a hill with vast open space adjoining it, and has major edicts of Ashoka the Great engraved on a mass of rock, by the side of the road leading to the ...

Soldiers, forestry officials and police have teamed up to halt the construction of a huge pagoda on a Chiang Rai hilltop by followers of Wat Dhammakaya. A total of 100 officers stormed a hilltop in Thoeng district of the northern province ...

VOHARA DE SILVA: Pagoda Tea Rooms broad smile manager It is with unfathomable emotion that I pen these words to express my deep emotions on the demise of my good friend Vohara de Silva, who answered his final call from above, a few day ago. The ...

PHNOM PENH— Prior to a recent government sweep of the Samakki Raingsey pagoda, in Phnom Penh, monks there and authorities had a long history of simmering conflict. The pagoda houses monks from the restive minority community of Khmer Kampuchea ...

Tens of thousands of monks, nuns and Buddhist followers from across the nation have begun the annual spring pilgrimage to the Bai Dinh pagoda at Gia Sinh commune, Gia Vien district in the northern province of Ninh Binh. The spring festival ...