Durga Puja is popular festival. During these five days of the festival, devotees decorate pandals, wear new clothes, and worship Goddess Durga. Image Credit: Getty Like other festivals, food plays a ...

Bhubaneswar: The commissionerate police have devised an action plan for police stations in Bhubaneswar to combat crimes during the ensuing Durga Puja. Both S Dev Datta Singh, the new commissioner ...

Bhubaneswar: To add to the festive spirit, state govt on Friday announced no ground rent will be charged from Durga Puja committees organising the puja at public places. Chief minister Mohan Majhi ...

Globalisation of Durga Puja Today, Durga Puja is not confined to Bengal. Thanks to the global Bengali diaspora, the festival is celebrated with grandeur in cities like London, New York and Dubai.

Several puja organisers have booked ware from the haat. Metropolitan Durgabari, in the lane next to Bypass Dhaba, will decorate their lights with jhuris as shades. “They have procured jhuris from us.

This could well have gone down in history as a Durga Puja ‘by the women, of the women, for the women’ — just that the idol-makers happen to be men and a large chunk of visitors to the pandal ...

The holidays for Eid-ul-Azha will be six days, Eid-ul-Fitr will have five days of public holidays, while Durga Puja will have a two-day holiday next year. This decision came during a meeting of the ...

The holy cities of Mathura and Vrindavan are all set to celebrate the significant festival of Govardhan Puja. As the auspicious Hindu festival is fast approaching, the temples of Mathura and ...

Vegetarian bhog for the goddess and a folk dances by tribal communities on Navami are some of the highlights of this Puja Over two centuries old, the Durga Puja of the Pathak family was started by ...

With Navaratri starting from Thursday, large crowds have already started thronging the city’s markets for puja shopping. Berhampur sub-collector Dheenah Dastageer said as many as 42 pandals will ...

Just a day before Dusshera, Ayudha Puja, also known as Shastra Puja is performed. It celebrates the worship of Iron tools, weapons, and instruments. It is observed on the ninth day of Navaratri ...

Then again, Apu extended her heartfelt Durga Puja wishes to her fans, saying, "Durga Puja is a special occasion that comes only once a year. On this day of Mahalaya, I send my sincere greetings to ...