They come in to visit the temple for the April Gajan festival and collect pitchers of Ganga water at a point that’s around a three-day walk from Tarakeshwar.

He said for the purpose of expanding the temple area, two other adjacent Shiva shrines, Tarakeshwar temple and Rani Bhavani Bhuvaneshwar temple have been merged into it.

PCB officials then visited Tarakeshwar temple and Doodh Pukur and collected samples of the pond water and charanamrita. 'Profuse algal growth has been observed in the pond. High algal growth has ...

As thousands from the state and across the country walk down the Tarakeshwar-Baidyabati Road on their way to the Tarakeshwar temple, parties compete with each other to help the pilgrims in an ...

Tableaux from other districts are as follows: Haveri: Tarakeshwar temple along with statues of Kanakadasa, Shishunal Sharif and Sarvajna; Yadagiri: temple and statue of Devara Dasimayya and statue ...

Had the wheels gone over the fishplate, the crack might have widened,” a senior official of Eastern Railway said. The 2,000-odd passengers packed into the nine compartments, mostly devotees returning ...

In the holy month of Shravana, lakhs of devotees within the state and also from the neighbouring states, visit Tarakeshwar Shiva temple to offer holy Ganges water to lord Shiva, seeking the divine ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi threw his might behind Swapan Dasgupta, a quintessential Bengali bhadralok of the BJP and the party candidate for the temple-town of Tarakeshwar in Hooghly.