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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
TopicDurga Puja

Topic: Durga Puja

Nitish Kumar, the ‘lonely goalkeeper’ of Bihar, and why car makers should be thanking Covid

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

All Durga Puja pandals in West Bengal to be no-entry zones, orders Calcutta High Court

For small pandals, barricades will have to be put up five metres from the entrance, while for bigger ones, the distance has to be 10 metres, the court said.

Man ‘disrupting’ Durga Puja festivities in viral video is not Muslim. Incident from 2019

Video was posted by one Ashish Singh and is a year old. Singh said he had created the video with his friends 'in a casual manner'.

Stop outraging over ‘migrant’ Durga idol. Hinduism in Bengal doesn’t need rescuing

Before you tweet your outrage, educate yourself about Bengali culture first. Pallab Bhaumik’s depiction of goddess Durga as a migrant worker symbolises the spirit of women.

The painting that inspired artist Pallab Bhaumik’s ‘migrant’ Durga idol

The idol depicting goddess Durga as a migrant worker will be installed at Kolkata Barisha Club pandal during the upcoming Durga Puja festival.

PIL filed in Calcutta HC for stay on holding community Durga Puja to prevent Covid surge

The petition stated that the state govt be prohibited from disbursing grants to community Durga Puja and direction to provide the same to CM's State Emergency Relief Fund.

PM Modi’s virtual address on Durga Shasthi to kick-start BJP’s poll battle for Bengal

Modi will address Bengal on 22 October to ‘counter CM Mamata Banerjee’s lies’ about central govt and BJP, said party leaders. BJP also plans a PM rally after Durga Puja.

DDMA withdraws restriction on large gatherings for upcoming festivals until 31 October

According to fresh guidelines, the concerned DMs and DCPs will appoint a nodal officer for each site and venue of Ramleela and Puja pandals.

BJP’s big Bengal plan for October — Amit Shah puja visit, women’s defence training, protests

BJP will train its women workers in self-defence ‘against TMC goons’, conduct marches with youth and farmers, and woo Bengal voters in Durga Puja pandals.

Mamata sings iconic Jago Durga song on Mahalaya, listeners leave ‘give us jobs’ comments

Bengal CM posts video of song on Facebook, where the youth urge her for jobs. TMC says state has limited power, but opposition says Modi & Mamata suffer from 'Ostrich syndrome'.

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.