Mahaveer Jayanthi celebrated in Puducherry

Mahaveer Jayanthi was celebrated in Puducherry on Friday with traditional gaiety and fervour.

Mahaveer Jayanthi was celebrated in Puducherry on Friday with traditional gaiety and fervour.

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Members of the Jain community took out a procession through important thoroughfares with a portrait of Lord Mahaveer carried in a chariot.

Excise department ordered closure of all liquo shops, toddy and arrack retail sales outlets and also bar attached restaurants in the Union Territory.