Jain community members take part in a protest in Ahmedabad on Sunday against the decision declaring Shri Sammed Shikharji in Jharkhand as a tourist place. (PTI) Sammed Shikharji in Parasnath Hills ...

NEW DELHI: Following intense protests by the Jain community, the Centre on Thursday stayed all tourism activity at the Parasnath Hill in Jharkhand, where their religious site, Sammed Shikharji ...

The doliwallahs are in the age group of 18 to 40. Rajender Puri, who regularly carries dolis in Shikharji in Jharkand, also a pilgrimage site for Jains, said most of the 400 doliwallahs in ...

The Centre on Thursday stayed all tourism activities at the Parasnath Hill where the Jain religious site 'Sammed Shikharji' is located and directed the Jharkhand government to immediately take all ...

The Centre and the Jharkhand government have decided that the Jain site of Sammed Shikharji will remain a place of pilgrimage and not be converted into a tourism hub, National Commission for ...

Shri Sammed Shikharji, is a sacred Jain pilgrimage site located at Parasnath Hills in Jharkhand, which was recently declared a tourist spot by the Jharkhand government. (ANI) ...

Shatrunjay Giriraj Hills in Palitana is considered a holy place for the Jains because the first Tirthankar is said to have attained Moksha there while Sammed Shikharji is considered one of the ...

A group of thousands of jain community members marched in Muzaffarnagar, India on Sunday to protest the government's move to declare Sammed Shikharji, a pilgrimage site for the community ...

from different parts of the country have thronged at the world fame Jain shrine of Parasnath (also known as sammet shikharji / sammed shikharji) to participate in Chatur-mas starting from Thursday.

Sammed Shikharji, located at Parasnath Hills in Jharkhand is a sacred pilgrimage site for the Jains. Delhi's India Gate, which draws tourists on January 1, saw a massive protest of the Jain ...

Protesting against the move to declare the Jain pilgrimage centre, Sammed Shikharji, as a tourist place, hundreds of members of the Jain community took out a huge protest march in Dharwad on ...