Social bodies demand steps to avoid air, sound pollution
Different social organisations have raised alarm at the indiscriminate use of high-intensity sound crackers and playing of DJ sound systems during the Durga idol immersions.
Different social organisations have raised alarm at the indiscriminate use of high-intensity sound crackers and playing of DJ sound systems during the Durga idol immersions.
In Bankura’s tribal-dominated Domohani village, where 60 tribal families reside ~ about 50 km away from the district headquarters ~ holding a Durga Puja is no easy game as the tribal communities worship their own God Marangburu and never allow ‘infiltration of outside culture’ into their ‘sacred’ custom and lifestyle.
Thousands of devotees and revellers are making a beeline for a marquee in north Kolkata to pay obeisance to a…
The district administration here has asked the Durga Puja organisers to complete the idol immersion by October 1 so that…