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 West Bengal government has announced a 12-day holiday for Durga Puja and an 11-day holiday for Diwali in 2025. The Durga Puja holidays will run from September 26th to October 7th, while the ...

West Bengal is expected to experience more rain after the Durga Puja festivities. Find out how long this spell of rain will ...

The West Bengal government on Thursday extended the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions till October 30 but allowed movement of people and vehicles at night during the Durga Puja festival from October ...

Not just fun and frolic, Durga Puja in West Bengal is a grand economic affair involving transactions of at least ₹40,000 crore, creating employment opportunities for around three lakh people ...

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.

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 ...

Hari Narayan started to perform Durga Puja, in its simplest form in a village named Bankimnagar, near Ranaghat, in Nadia, post Partition After the 1964 Calcutta riots, followed by the India-Pakistan ...

Prohibitory orders were imposed and Internet services were suspended after clashes erupted between two communities in Beldanga town in West Bengal ... during Durga Puja and Kali Puja immersions ...

Sundara Das, 28, works as a farm labourer round the year but takes a break during Durga Puja to join a band of women dhakis (traditional ... Currently, there are dozens of dhaki bands — of both men ...