Bhopal, April 29 (IANS) A devastating road accident on the Tirla Bypass in Dhar district claimed the lives of at least eight labourers, including children, on Wednesday night.The incident occurred around 8.30 p.m. near a private petrol pump in the Chikaliya area when a pick-up truck, dangerously overcrowded with passengers, lost control and overturned.Preliminary police reports suggest the vehicle was carrying between 40 and 45 labourers, a figure that far exceeds the legal and safe seating capa…
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Bhubaneswar, Feb 15 (IANS) Lakhs of devotees gathered at Shiva temples across Odisha to have the darshan of Lord Shiva and witness the sacred late-night ritual of raising the Mahadeep (great lamp) atop temple structures on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri on Sunday.Prominent Shiva temples in the state, including the 11th-century Lingaraj Temple in Bhubaneswar, Loknath Temple in Puri, Chandrashekhar Temple at Kapilash in Dhenkanal, and the Dhabaleswar Temple at Athagarh in Cuttack district, witnes…