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TopicDurga Puja

Topic: Durga Puja

Tablighi Jamaat, Onam, Ganesh Chaturthi — Covid spared none, so Dussehra not immune

There is a strong fear of a surge in Covid cases in several states in the upcoming months due to the ongoing festival season. The government has also flagged concerns about it.

Bengal’s Durga Puja 2020 is a petri dish of politics and pandemic, a perfect storm for BJP

Durga Puja is West Bengal’s biggest festival — it has also become Mamata Banerjee’s biggest problem now.

Modi is the only Indian mass leader after Gandhi who has used religious symbolism so well

Modi’s two Navratri addresses to the nation deserve closer attention. They were a complex amalgam of carefully crafted and thoughtfully arranged messaging, just like Brand Modi.

Fish fries, Honey Singh at pandals, sound of dhaak — Durga Pujo in 2020 is a silent aching

We will meet again among friends and relatives, and the smell of dhunuchi in the air of CR Park, Kolkata, Murshidabad, and Dhaka alike. But not in 2020.

PM Modi invokes goddess Durga to reaffirm govt’s commitment to women’s empowerment

Addressing the people of West Bengal during Durga Puja, Modi stressed on the govt's efforts to make anti-rape laws more stringent and empowering women through welfare schemes.

No crowds, no pandal-hopping, no adda — Kolkata gets ready for unusual Durga Puja

The Calcutta High Court Monday directed the state government to declare all pandals 'no-entry zones', calling for the erection of barricades around them.

Virtual darshan, live-streaming of ‘dhakis’ — Delhi’s quiet Durga Puja celebration this year

Large gatherings have been prohibited and only 50 per cent of hall capacity is allowed in enclosed spaces as well as open grounds.

Calcutta HC now allows drummers at pandals, increases audience limit to 60 for big pujas

Hearing an appeal, the court ordered the number of people who can stay inside the marquees be increased from 25 to 60 for big Pujas but retained it at 15 for small ones.

An NGO is offering food to stranded truckers along Assam-Mizoram highway amid border row

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Not enough cops to manage Durga Puja pandals, says Calcutta HC on its no-entry order

Kolkata Police has 25,000 personnel & 12,000 civic volunteers, but city has 3,000 Durga Puja pandals. Court said it isn’t enough despite ‘exemplary guidelines’.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.