Durga puja, West Bengal's biggest carnival, is likely to be subdued this year as calls to boycott the festivities grow in response to protests over the brutal rape-murder of a woman doctor at RG ...

The annual festival will formally begin through the Maha Shashthi Puja at temples across the country on September 26. The festivities will begin with the Maha Shashti Puja on September 26 ...

Imagine a 5-day break for a Hindu festival in the era of Raj, and that was not its biggest festival, Durga Puja! Dr Sur commented that this proves that in 18th-century Bengal, Holi was indeed a ...

Kolkata: Several big-ticket Durga Puja clubs have started adding a dash of grandeur to the usually quiet Saraswati Puja celebrations. Their budgets have risen 10 times in the last 10 years ...

Durga Puja is a a part of the Navaratri festival held in many places ... It is celebrated during the months of September - October across India. The festival is one of the biggest festivals in West ...

At 517, Bose Bari Durga Puja in Hooghly’s Khalisani is much older than Chandannagar Jagaddhatri Puja ...

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Inscription in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity - 2021. Durga Puja is an annual festival celebrated in the fall in India and Bangladesh. It marks the ten-day ...

Kolkata: Pointers Business Forum, an alumni-driven business network from South Point High School, is looking for promotion of Kolkata's Durga Puja as a global destination for tourism. Speaking at ...

the Durga Puja. Bettany: The festival celebrates the birth of the goddess Durga and her epic battle with the evil demon king. This famous story was first recorded in the 5th or 6th centuries AD in ...