Sir — The Swedish Academy’s decision to award the Nobel Prize for literature to Peter Handke — an alleged apologist for Serbian war crimes — is shameful. The appeal made by the Mothers of Sreb...

For Ganesha festivities this year, we decided to take the kids where all the action takes place: the Central Railway Loco Works in Lower Parel, near the Lalbaug flyover in the heart of Mumbai. This is...

So though the carnival started at 4.30pm, our turn came not earlier than 6pm. We spent three hours seeing the other puja tableaux parked for the procession. The youngsters got busy in eating jhalmuri,...

We reached the venue by 3.30pm, an hour before the programme was scheduled to start. Thanks to our trolleys reaching the night before, we were queued at number 12 which was quite early given that ther...

Calcuttans will get a last glimpse of the idols of almost all big-ticket Durga pujas on Tuesday.The organisers of 74 pujas will take part in a parade on Red Road from 4.30pm on Tuesday. Chief ministe...

The Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) has, for the first time, asked its regional offices to conduct heavy metal test of water samples collected from various immersion points in addition...

A social outfit and a bunch of B-school students showed what an ideal immersion could be at Domuhani ghat, Sonari, on Vijaya Dashami Friday.Nine budding managers from XLRI’s Social Initiative Group ...

Immersion at 14 river ghats and over three lakeside spots in the steel city was completed in a record time (before 10pm) on Dashami Friday, thanks to wider approach passageways, better surveillance an...

The civic body has, for the first time, come up with a plan for easy handling and “respectable” immersion of the idols of Goddess Durga and the side deities.As it was found that the age-old practi...

More than one lakh people took part in the immersion ceremony of Durga Puja in the city as it inched towards completion on Saturday amid tight security.Bright and dry weather conditions brought enthus...