While most parts of Bengal bid a farewell to Durga on Bijoya Dashami, the spirit of celebration remains very much alive in many villages across north Bengal as the goddess is being venerated in ...

Durga Puja 2025: As West Bengal gears up for the five-day Durga Puja festival, the celebrations may face interruptions due to heavy rainfall. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned that a ...

“Aschhe Bachor Abar Hobe!” - Goodbyes are hard, and Uma leaving Earth to return to Kailash, is known as Dashami among Bengalis. Bijaya Dashami is the day when Bengalis bid goodbye to Maa Durga and ...

The mirth and merriment brought by the annual arrival of Annapurna, or Goddess Durga, in the temples and puja pavilions across the country, nears its end with Hindu devotees s bidding adieu to the ...

Sindoor or vermilion is a precious marker for married women across India, and on Vijaya Dashami women at Durga Puja pandals and temples daubed each other with a dash of the sacred reddish-orange ...

Amid the lingering threat of a depression that had already brought heavy rain and dampened the Puja festivities, a sudden cyclonic storm lasting less than a minute swept across parts of the ...

The immersion ceremony symbolises the end of the goddess's annual sojourn to her paternal home and she returns to her husband Lord Shiva at their heavenly abode in Mount Kailash. Thursday devotees ...

The Sharadiya Durga Puja, the largest religious festival of the Hindu community, concluded on Thursday with the immersion of Goddess Durga's idols across the country, marked by deep devotion, vibrant ...

The devotees of Goddess Durga have bid her farewell with love and tears in their eyes amid the sounds of drums, conch shells and brass cymbals. The Dashami, or tenth day rituals for Durga Puja, kicked ...

Durga Puja 2025 ends with Durga Visarjan on October 2. It’s the day when people finally say goodbye to Maa Durga after nine days of prayer, colour, and celebration. The sound of drums rolls through ...

Kolkata came alive with colour, devotion, and emotion on Dashami as devotees celebrated Sindur Khela and the Visharjan of Goddess Durga. At the Bagbazar Durga Puja Mandap, married women playfully ...