to Dashami (October 12), covering the beginning and end of Durga puja, he said.

The famed 'puja spirit' that takes hold of Bengal each August, rising in a crescendo till the four-day Durga Puja festivities ... data from the Confederation of West Bengal Trade Associations ...

Durga Puja is a a part of the Navaratri festival held in many places of India. It is most religiously celebrated in North India, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Out of the the nine days of ...

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 ...

Mamata Banerjee said that everyone irrespective of religion has played a role in India's progress, but efforts are on to ...

Earlier, I participated in Durga Puja, Saraswati Puja ... Ram is all over the country and in West Bengal. We don't need anyone's permission to celebrate Ram Navami at Jadavpur University.

Bengali Association of Calgary (Hindu Bengalis from East and West Bengal) and Deshantri of Ottawa. All these groups celebrate Durga Puja in their own way. However, the Bengali community in Windsor ...

The West Bengal government has earned a whopping state excise income of Rs 600 crore through sale of liquor during the four days of the just concluded Durga Puja festival in the state.

Besides Durga puja, BC Block has been performing Lakshmi, Kali and Jagaddhatri pujas for several years and now Annapurna puja has got added to their festive calendar. “We didn’t go door-to-door ...

Local organizers go head-to-head to craft magnificent pandals- - which are temporary stall-like structures ... their remarkable craftsmanship. Durga Puja is known to be one of the most vibrant ...