Rarely does Kollywood pay a tribute to defence personnel who lay their lives in combat. And ‘Amaran’, a biopic on Major Mukund Varadarajan, released on Diwali has become a box office hit.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has penned his thoughts about Diwali indulgence, in which he shared that the “resistance to consumption that was being deliberately avoided, was broken due to unavoidable circumstances”.
Drashti Dhami shares her first family photo with her newborn daughter, celebrating Diwali with husband Niraj Khemka and expressing joy in a heartfelt social media post.
Asha Bhosle celebrated Bhai Dooj with Mumbai BJP Chief Ashish Shelar, performing traditional rituals that honor the bond between siblings.
Kolkata's Sonagachi district celebrates Bhai Dooj, where sex workers come together to honor sibling bonds, challenge societal stigma.
Data from 242 cities collected on November 13 by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) showed that no city had significant air quality, 53 had "very poor," 85 had "poor," 75 had "moderate," and only 32 of the 242 cities had "satisfactory" to "good" air quality
A day after Diwali, people in Indore's Madhya Pradesh participated in the Hingot war, a traditional fireball battle in which two groups hurled burning 'hingots' at each other.
Environment Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer said the Punjab Pollution Control Bureau (PPCB) has installed Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS) in six cities - Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Khanna, Mandi Gobindgarh and Patiala to monitor the ambient air quality on a real-time basis.
During the meeting, they expressed their best wishes to Indian communities across the globe as they celebrated the festival of lights, it said.
NASA on Monday took to social media to extend Diwali greetings with a celestial image captured by Hubble Space Telescope.
