Durga Puja In Bengal

Kolkata Metro Schedule for today: More services amid Durga Puja Carnival

Kolkata Metro will start additional services on the North-South corridor amid the Durga Puja Carnival on Red Road in Kolkata. The metro services will continue till midnight on Friday

Maha Navami 2023: Wishes, quotes and messages to share with family, friends

Maha Navami is an auspicious festival celebrated throughout the country. This festival is celebrated on October 23, 2023. Here are the wishes, quotes and messages to share with friends

Top 6 Durga Puja pandals that will mesmerise you in Kolkata, check list

The Durga Puja festival is celebrated with complete joy and enthusiasm. The festival will start on October 20 and will conclude on October 24. Here's the list of top Durga Puja pandals

Navratri 2023 Day 4: Everything you need to know about Maa Kushmanda

On the day 4 of Navratri on October 18, Maa Kushmanda is worshipped. Hindus worships Maa Durga and her nine forms during the celebration, mark fasts, eat satvik food, and seek blessings of the goddess

Curtains down on Durga puja festival in West Bengal with idol immersion

The five-day-long Durga Puja festival in West Bengal came to a close on Wednesday with the immersion of idols on 'Vijayadashami' at various river ghats across the state. Women participated in the traditional 'Sindur Khela' (smearing vermilion on each other's faces) and offered sweets and prayers to the goddess before bidding her farewell for the year. Organisers of most household and community pujas were seen leading colourful processions to the ghats amid the beating of drums and chanting of mantras. Shortly after the immersion, people exchanged sweets and greetings. At Babughat, which witnesses the highest number of idol immersions in the state, devotees were seen queuing up since 11 am, with chants of Asche bochor abar hobe' (till next year) adding to the fervour. According to sources in Kolkata Police, adequate security arrangements have been made on the thoroughfares and at the river ghats for peaceful observance of the idol-immersion ceremony. The immersion of big-ticket Du

Muted Maha Ashtami rituals, celebrations in Bengal amid Covid restrictions

The usual fun, frolic and religious fervour associated with Maha Ashtami was barely visible on Saturday, with people across West Bengal worshipping the goddess virtually

Court partially relaxes order on WB's Durga Puja pandals: Things to know

The court has allowed entry of up to 45 people at a time in big pandals

What Durga pujo really means

As I was thinking about how interesting it was that Muslim families were also participating and making the most of the Durga pujo festivities, I realised it was not just restricted to pandal hopping

WB: Puja pandal decorated with 4,000 letterboxes, computer mouse in Kolkata

The South Kolkata Chetla Agrani Club's had made the pandal with a theme of "Kolkata choliyechey Naritey Noritey" which means Kolkata on the go

SC issues notice to WB govt over grant of funds for Durga Puja committees

The top court was hearing a petition filed by advocate Sourav Dutta challenging the Mamata Banerjee govt's decision to dole out Rs 280 mn to 28,000 puja committees in the state for durga puja

Durga Puja 2017: Will foil plans to divide people of Bengal, says Mamata

The West Bengal CM cautioned people not to get 'misled' by conspiracies hatched by troublemakers

Bengal's disaster recipe: Communal contest over Durga puja and Muharram processions

Has communal hatred seeped into the Bengali-speaking middle-class psyche?