The five-day long Durga Puja festival has begun in India, Bengal in particular. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Since long, one of the most abstract, curious and ...

The country’s Hindu community is celebrating its biggest festival, Durga Puja. On the second day of the festival, Maha Saptami is being celebrated. Rituals of Maha Saptami began on Monday morning at ...

A golden-hued goddess, navapatrika carried in a vintage palanquin and a community feast on Navami mark the 300-year-old Roy Bari Durga Puja at Kalikapur in Burdwan. My Kolkata brings you a sneak peek ...

Once the idol of Durga is brought into the pandal, the purohit (priest) instills life into the goddess (pranpratishtha) after which bodhon or the inaugural puja takes place. Bodhon generally occurs in ...

The day started off with morning prayers, as the rituals commenced with "Pran Pratistha" where the deity was symbolically endowed with life and invoked in a group of nine plants bunched together -- ...

Hari Mati Durga Puja Committee will celebrate its 90th year with an Indra Yoga themed pandal. The 130-foot structure will be inaugurated on Saptami. A budget of Rs 40 lakh is allocated for the pandal.

Before her formal incarnation in the clay idol, avtaars of Goddess Durga is invoked in nine different leaves. LUCKNOW: Before her formal incarnation in the clay idol, avtaars of Goddess Durga is ...

Several places in the capital turn festive during the Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the Hindus. Almost every Hindu remains busy in celebration centring the Mandaps for the idols of Durga and her ...

As the state capital gets set to renew its bond of piety with the Goddess during the Durga Puja celebrations, the Ramakrishna Math in Nirala Nagar is quietly preparing for a traditional worship ...

As the state capital gets set to renew its bond of piety with the Goddess during the Durga Puja celebrations, the Ramakrishna Math in Nirala Nagar is quietly preparing for a traditional worship ...