The devotees will be able to have a darshan of Lord Shiva as well as 13-foot idols of Goddess Durga. The total cost of the pandal is around 25 lakh. “Around 28 workers from West Bengal made it under ...

There is furor over an alleged "sexist" remark made by senior Trinamool Congress leader and MP Kalyan Banerjee who said that only men and none else can save the honour of women. During an interaction ...

In Muslim-majority Bangladesh, vast crowds celebrate the biggest Hindu festival of the year under tight security, after a ...

The ordinary Tamil carries the image of Raavan as an extraordinarily accomplished person coming to an inglorious end because ...

In the south, megaliths were being raised to the dead, and herdsmen were piling dung and establishing ash-mounds ...

A new book based on the ancient Shri Bimbakhyana manuscript chronicles the city’s medieval history, including some of ...

Ma Prem Naina Wood apple, a fruit tree native to the Indian subcontinent and considered as being very sacred. Also known as ...

Abhimanyu led the jumboo savari procession, carrying the golden howdah with presiding deity Goddess Chamundeshwari, marking ...

It was during the time of Yogendralal Adhya, who famously features in a Bengali folk rhyme, that this Chinsurah Durga Puja ...

Inspired by the 12th-century Kamba Ramayanam by Tamil poet Kamban, Valmiki’s Ramayana and Shashi Raj Kavoor’s play ...