As we all know that Navratri is beginning from today, September 22, 2025 so people must be searching for different mantras which they chant during these nine days and nine nights and please the ...

Sri Durga Malleswara Swamyvarla Devasthanam (Kanaka Durga temple), atop Indrakeeladri, witnessed overwhelming devotion during the Dasara festivities, with total offerings exceeding ₹10 crore in cash, ...

Kolkata: The number of foreign tourists in Kolkata this Durga Puja is up by nearly 20% over last year, reflecting the festival's ever-growing appeal among foreigners since it won the Unesco heritage ...

Who is IAS Durga Shakti Nagpal? Durga Shakti Nagpal, a 2010-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, was allotted bungalow B-17 on March 19, 2015. At the time, she was an Officer on Special Duty ...

Publishers and booksellers in College Street, often considered the world’s biggest book market, are still recovering from the shock of seeing their wares submerged in water, no longer retrievable, ...

The last weekend before Dhanteras and Diwali saw a surge in festive shopping across Calcutta. Cars, jewellery, phones, consumer durables and decorative lights — there was a robust demand across ...

Dhanteras Puja: Light 13 oil lamps (diyas) and perform a Lakshmi Yantra puja during the given timing. This ritual is said to invoke Goddess Lakshmi’s blessings for both prosperity and good health.

The calculated and manufactured communal violence – and the resultant shutdown of the internet and social media – in Cuttack, Odisha during the immersion of Durga idols after Dussehra has shocked the ...

Over 50,000 people gathered as Bengal’s greatest festival made a historic real-time debut at the 'centre of the universe' Vedant Karia Published 10.10.25, 05:03 PM ...