Kali Puja pandals will be “no-entry zones” like the ones for Durga Puja this year but since they are more in number and smaller than Durga Puja pandals, only up to 5 metres from them will ...
The Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) has decided on an initiative to use organic items like flowers and leaves, which have been left at the Mahananda river bank during immersion after Durga Puja, ...
Two men and a woman, members of a Durga Puja organising committee, dived into the Hooghly at Sovabazar Ghat on Wednesday to save a friend who had slipped into the river during immersion.
Members of t...
CMC sources said around 12,000 idols were immersed at 16 ghats. More than 80 per cent of them were immersed at the Baje Kadamtala, Gwalior and Nimtala ghats.
“The Baje Kadamtala and Nimtala gha...
The North 24-Parganas district administration on Tuesday morning started the cleansing of the Ichhamati river following the pollution of water during immersion of idols on Dashami.
The authorities of...
In Nadia's Hogolberia, a third-year BA student, Bibhash Das, 20, drowned in a pond when Durga idol apparently fell on him during immersion on Monday evening. The body of Bibhash Das, 20, was recov...
What the fear of pollution could not do, the pandemic has done in Calcutta.
A Durga idol was immersed in the pandal following the most environment-friendly “wash and melt” model and in the proces...
The directive to clean up ghats and rivers comes in the wake of guidelines issued by the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board via its Adityapur regional office, sent to the company from the central...