Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 7 (ANI): Setting the pitch for the upcoming Durga Puja, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday recited Chandi Path and urged the puja committees ...

CUTTACK: Countdown to Durga Puja has begun and filigree artisans already have a full plate with creating unique ‘Chandi Medha’ (silver filigree backdrops) for different puja mandaps, besides cleaning ...

Fifty-one, and not the usual 108, earthen lamps are lit for Sandhi Puja at the 316-year-old puja of a family in Sripur, Hooghly, that gets its name from a title believed to have been bestowed on one ...

Vijayawada: Around 1.05 lakh devotees thronged the Durga temple by 8 pm on the seventh day of the 11-day Dasara festivities at the Durga temple on Sunday. The temple witnessed a massive rush of ...

CUTTACK: Two puja committees, Maa Mangala Puja Committee at Gopaljew Lane in Matha Sahi, and Durga Mandir Parichalana Committee in Jobra, are set to enter the elite Chandi Medha (Silver Tableau) club ...

Cuttack's Jobra Durga Puja Committee is set to unveil a stunning 2.5 quintal silver tableau (Chandi Medha) adorned with intricate filigree work and a new peacock design, showcasing the city's famed ...

The western part of south Bengal, the region lying between the Chhotanagpur plateau on the west and the Ganges delta on the east, is known as Rarh Bengal. The word rarh originates in the ancient ...

Thousands of devotees thronged Indrakeeladri on Sunday, the seventh day of Dasara, to offer prayers to Goddess Kanaka Durga adorned as Sri Maha Chandi. Temple authorities said 95,687 devotees had ...

For the first time, the presiding deity at Sri Durga Malleswara Swamyvarla Devasthanam appeared as Maha Chandi Devi on the fifth day of Dasara festivities on Thursday. Much to the surprise of the ...