Alarmed by the indiscriminate use of high-intensity sound crackers and playing of DJ sound boxes during the Durga Puja immersion, Baji O DJ Box Birodhi Manch put up a strong protest against the use of DJ boxes during the Durga Puja immersions.
In a significant development in the mysterious death of an 18-year-old school girl found charred inside a Durga Puja pandal on the day of Lakshmi Puja at Ramkrishnapara, the state government has appointed Subedi Sanyal as the special public prosecutor for the case.
A decomposed body of a youth, who'd mysteriously disappeared in the evening of Sashthi of Durga Puja on 6 October from near a Puja pandal was unearthed this afternoon in Bishnupur.
Durga Puja has become the lifeblood of small businesses across West Bengal, with many relying on the festival season for a substantial share of their annual earnings.
On 8 October this year, Anupam Halder, through his camera lens, unveiled his innovative concept of visualising the deity Durga through a young fashion model, Sathi Sarkar, in a photography exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata. The model, who embodies goddess Durga with her sensuality and earthiness, gets adored by the city’s hoi polloi.
In order to provide ease of travel to pandal-hoppers, the Sealdah and Howrah Divisions of the Eastern Railway have arranged for night-long local EMU services on peak puja days.
Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC) has given away awards for best Durga Pujas of Asansol sub-division at a function in Rabindra Bhawan at Asansol town for the Durga Puja Awards 2023.
Remember chakravyuh, the impregnable maze which was created for Arjun in Mahabharata? A Durga Puja in the city has taken inspiration from it and tried to find a link with the present society, where the women are yet to come out of oppression in the society.
After the fatwa by the fundamentalists in Bangladesh, the state BJP has discussed the matter extensively and informed the Union home ministry.
The heart-wrenching incident of rape and murder of the trainee doctor at R G Kar hospital, which brought questions on women safety to the fore, is also making puja organisers of the city take the subject as one of the topmost priorities.
