Durga Puja may well turn out to be an occasion without the usual festive fervour this year.The coronavirus pandemic has forced organisers to keep their fingers crossed about hosting the puja, schedule...

Snan Yatra, or Devasana Purnima, is an important ritual observed a fortnight before Rath Yatra.In Puri, lakhs of devotees witness the ritual at the Lord Jagannath temple. In Calcutta, the occasion coi...

Like every year, the capital’s well-known sculptor Ajay Kumar Paul, 56, had roped in around a dozen of trained sculptors from other parts Jharkhand and Bengal to prepare idols of gods and goddesses ...

Mintu Paul has about 12 orders for Durga idols by Poila Baisakh every year. This year, he received his first order from a city puja committee on Monday.The order from Santosh Mitra Square Sarbojanin D...

Sonu Paul's family has been making idols of gods and goddesses for generations but they have never felt so helpless as they are feeling now during the lockdown to ward off the novel coronavirus threat...

The coronavirus has struck in the city’s idol-making hub, too, with overseas orders for Durga idols either cancelled or put on hold. The Puja rush would already have begun at Kumartuli in any other ...

The budget of big-ticket Durga Pujas is set to take a hard knock due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak as sponsorships by corporate advertisers would be reduced, leading to scaling down ...

An eco-friendly idol will be worshipped on Saraswati Puja at West Jorhat Jatiya Vidyalaya, about 6km from Jorhat town, in Jorhat district of Upper Assam on Thursday.The idol, made with flour, paper an...

Salt Lake FE Block Residents’ Association is set to forge closer ties among neighbours this year. The block association has for the first time printed wall calendars for its residents with holidays ...

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