Kolkata: With 166 days to go for Durga Puja, several prominent Durga Puja committees in Kolkata initiated their festivities on ‘Poila Baishakh' by displaying their puja banners and revealing ...

Kateel’s Durga Parameshwari Temple concluded their annual function with fiery "Thootedara" Rituals which is firefighting on April 21. In this festival, devotees throw burning palm fronds at each other ...

On this day the weapons of Goddess Durga are worshiped and the celebration is known as ‘Astra Puja’. This day is also popularly referred as ‘Virashtami’ owing to the display of arms and other forms of ...

For the first time since they came to the United States, approximately 100 students, many from Bengal (east India), were able to participate in Durga Puja, an autumn holiday, with the same fervor and ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday (April 15, 2025) extended till April 21 the protection from arrest granted to former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, accused of cheating and wrongly availing OBC and ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended its interim order of granting protection from arrest to former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) trainee officer Puja Khedkar, accused of forging her ...

Mahadevamma purchased land near Kembalu, where she found villagers performing a puja in a dilapidated Male Mahadeshwara temple, said to have been built during the Chola dynasty. She pledged to ...

Rishi Agastya, one of the most honoured sages in Hinduism, is known for his wisdom and powerful penance. He is widely mentioned in ancient Indian scriptures like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata ...

P. Prakash Babu, Vice-Chancellor, Pondicherry University, made a courtesy call on Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister for Education, in New Delhi on Thursday. A press note said during the meeting ...

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It’s not about bedtime. It’s about belonging. 4. Rituals Are Her Quiet Form of Resistance Take Chhath Puja in Bihar. Your mom wakes up before dawn, doesn’t drink a drop of water all day ...