Deoghar temple Jharkhand.

Why in news?

• Tragedy stuck recently at Tirkut Hills close to Baidyanath Temple in Jharkhand’s Deogarh after some cable cars in a ropeway collided with each other.
• Also known as Baidyanath Jyotirlinga temple, Deoghar temple is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga in India.
• A Jyotirlinga is a shrine where Lord Shiva is worshipped in the form of a fiery column of light.
• The other 11 Jyotirlingas are
  • Somnath in Gujarat,
  • Mallikarjuna at Srisailam in Andhra Pradesh,
  • Mahakaleswar at Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh,
  • Omkareshwar in Madhya Pradesh,
  • Kedarnath in Uttrakhand,
  • Bhimashankar at Pune in Maharashtra,
  • Viswanath at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh,
  • Tryambakeshwar at Nashik in Maharashtra,
  • Aundha Nagnath at Aundha in Hingoli District in Maharashtra,
  • Rameshwar at Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu and
  • Grushneshwar at Ellora near Aurangabad, in Maharashtra.