CUTTACK: Apart from colourful pandals and crowds of revellers, Durga Puja in Cuttack city is also famous for offerings (bhoga or prasad) to the goddess on the five days of the festival. Most puja ...

But in a surprise move, the Muhammad Yunus-led interim govt announced on Saturday the approval of 3,000 tonnes of the prized hilsa fish for export to India just in time for Durga puja. The ...

At One Town, where the city’s oldest Durga Puja celebration is held every year in SP Naidu Memorial Hall, the mood is upbeat. Back in the make-shift workshop of the Bengali artisans at One Town ...

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 ...

Mamata Banerjee’s party posts video with ‘anti-fish-eater’ clips of Narendra Modi, Paresh Rawal, Ravinder Singh Negi ...

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 ...