On this day the weapons of Goddess Durga are worshiped and the celebration is known as ‘Astra Puja’. This day is also popularly referred as ‘Virashtami’ owing to the display of arms and other forms of ...

Kolkata: With 166 days to go for Durga Puja, several prominent Durga Puja committees in Kolkata initiated their festivities ...

Saturday, April 5, marks Ashthami during this year's holy 9-day stretch of Chaitra Navratri. Here are the Kanya Puja do's and don'ts you must swear by ...

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha inaugurated the Garia and Borsho Boron Utsav 2025 in Agartala, emphasizing the festival's ...

One of the most heartfelt traditions on Durga Ashtami is Kanya Pujan or Kumari Pooja. In this ritual, nine young girls, representing the nine forms of the goddess, are invited into homes and temples.

Sharing a candid photo featuring her and Jaya Bachchan from a Durga Puja pandal, Kajol penned the caption,“Happy birthday to the most no nonsense woman I know wish u a fantastic year ahead ...

The vandalism came to fore on Sunday morning when members of the local Basanti Durga puja committees discovered that the heads of the idols were missing. Committee members Sushant Parida ...

Kolkata-based Uday Kumar is a contractual worker whose life took an unforeseen turn during the Durga Puja holidays of 2015. What began as a simple act of washing his face in a train compartment ...