Maha Bishuba Sankranti and the Oriya New Year was celebrated across the state with much fanfare and gaiety on Thursday. People thronged to temples in large numbers to pray for a prosperous year ahead.

When Lord Jagannath rolls' out of the temple in Jamalpur for his annual visit to his maternal uncle's home in Saraspur on Wednesday, there would hardly be an Oriya of the 800-odd families settled in ...