At least 1,500 people in Kalna, East Burdwan, took a holy dip in the Hooghly on the occasion of Mahalaya on Thursday to perform tarpan rituals as a tribute to departed ancestors. Mahalaya this year i...

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A team of police officers will be deployed at each of the 37 Hooghly ghats from early on Thursday to ensure social distancing is followed when visitors turn up to perform the ritual of tarpan on the o...

Less than a week is left for Mahalaya. Every year during this time, traffic snarls are common as more and more people step out of their homes to shop. Vehicles are parked indiscriminately, pedestrians...

Next year, Goddess Durga will be worshipped more than a month after Mahalaya. The usual gap between Mahalaya and Mahasashthi, which marks the start of Durga Puja, is six days.While Mahalaya next year ...

Sir — Recently two groups in Calcutta launched clean-up drives along the riverbanks to rid the city of plastic. The sentiment is noble, but the decision taken by one of the groups to begin the sweep...

Mahalaya was dark and wet and the run up to Puja is likely to stay that way.A trough of low-pressure extending from Uttar Pradesh to north-eastern Bay of Bengal threatens to bring heavy rain in most p...