Braving the chill, about 500,000 Hindu devotees on Monday took a ritual bath in a pond in Orissa's temple town of Konark and offered prayers to the sun god on the occasion of auspicious Magha Saptami.

Bhubaneswar: At least four lakh pilgrims on Thursday took a holy dip in a pond in Orissa's temple town of Konark on the occasion of Magha Saptami, which Hindus consider auspicious, the authorities sai