A vivid Durga with a fierce pagan vibe is set against Picasso's Cubist-style black-and-white figures at a pandal during the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata on October 6, 2024.

In 2021, UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed ‘Durga Puja in Kolkata’ on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage ...

Durga Puja celebrations were not safe even in Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh. Hardly a year passed without some attack on puja pandals or idols. For the radicals, whom Hasina failed to rein in, idol ...

Durga Puja celebrates the victory of the goddess Durga over a demon called Mahishasura (Image credit: Samir Jana/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) By The Week Staff published October 20, 2023 ...

As the Durga Puja celebrations in West Bengal are slowly coming to an end, the government is preparing for its annual Durga Puja carnival where the top pandals participate in a long roadshow to ...

More than a week has passed since Puja, pandals still continue to hog roads and pavements Structures pose health risk as city is set to get drenched later this week Debraj Mitra Published 21.10.24, 10 ...

The decision will be applicable for all Durga Puja pandals of the state from this year. Puja committees pay ground rent upward of Rs 25,000 to the government depending on the size of their pandals.

CUTTACK: There are some mandaps in the millennium city where Durga Puja is celebrated with a unique blend of traditions.One such place is the mandap of Sri Sri ...

Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi visited several Durga Puja pandals, and offered prayers to Maa Durga on the occasion of Navami in Cuttack district on Saturday. "Cuttack is a historical ...