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Business To Business, Puri, 16th July, 2026: Amid chants of "Jai Jagannath", thousands of devotees on Thursday began pulling the chariots of the sibling deities along the Grand Road in Puri, marking the main day of the annual Rath Yatra festival.
Devotees first pulled the "Taladhwaja" chariot of Lord Balabhadra, followed by Devi Subhadra's "Darpadalan" chariot. Lord Jagannath's "Nandighosha" chariot was scheduled to follow.
The three chariots are making their way from the 12th-century Jagannath Temple to the Shree Gundicha Temple, regarded as the birthplace of the deities, located about 2.6 km away.