Social group NTFN had compiled the Covid guidelines issued by the government and the high court before the Pujas and used them as criteria for their markings. “We had 26 volunteers who did the r...

CJ Block streamed cultural programmes on Saptami and Ashtami evenings on its Facebook page to keep residents entertained in the absence of on-stage cultural programmes this year.  The virtual pl...

Photographers’ take The basic purpose of photography has always been to revisit or throwback into memories. “During the lockdown, lack of activities must have accelerated the memory burst...

Bengal on Thursday reported a drop in its total active Covid-19 cases for the 24th consecutive day since the end of Durga Puja, recording 1,01,673 recoveries during this period that outweighed the 91,...

“When this spell of rise in the recovery rate began on October 22, the rate was 87.44. Now, we are over 92. We will overtake the national rate in a matter of weeks,” said the minister. Th...

Later, I joined Path Bhawan Bangla School to pick up the language as we do not have Bengali in school. Classes take place on alternate Sundays. We, the students of Path Bhawan, put up a performance a...

There was a real sense of community and spirit here; it wasn’t a glorified dinner party. The energy was infections as my daughter and I immersed ourselves in Puja preparations — from paint...

At least three north Bengal districts have reported a surge in Covid-19 cases during the past one-week, a trend that has been dubbed as an “after effect of Durga Puja” by doctors of the re...

Bengal on Thursday, continuing with the longest spell of an uninterrupted drop in total active Covid-19 cases, logged 3,856 new cases and yet another new high in daily recoveries at 4,453, spurring th...

On Ashtami, as the pushpanjali mantra uttered by the priest blared on the loudspeaker in the streets, like many of her neighbours this year, Debadrita Das sat at home, away from the pandal and the pan...