Durga Prasai (L) and the statement. KATHMANDU: The ‘National, Nationalist, Religious, Cultural and Citizen Protection Maha Abhiyan’, led by Durga Prasai, has directed its members not to take part in ...

KATHMANDU: The police have seized the vehicle used by Durga Prasai, the ‘commander’ of the Joint People’s Movement Committee, amid escalating tensions during the royalist demonstration in Tinkune. The ...

A beginner guide to Durga Puja food culture in Bengal—what ‘bhog’ means, why niramish matters in ritual settings, and how ...

West Bengal’s Durga Puja celebrations will look different this year, with the BJP government introducing a series of new rules covering liquor sales, DJ music, pandal inaugurations, government grants, ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has apologised to the people of the State after the Government published an advertisement in Monday’s (September 7, 2026) newspapers depicting Goddess Durga ...

A print advertisement for a BJP programme on the occasion of Durga Puja has sparked a massive row in West Bengal, providing much ammunition to the opposition Trinamool Congress. In face of Trinamool ...

A controversy has erupted in Bengal with calls from various quarters for non-vegetarian food to be kept away from Durga Puja pandals. Hindutva organisations and religious preachers are now appealing ...

Mangaldai, Sept 6: Darrang and Udalguri are set to get a total of 257 new Anganwadi centres in the coming months, with 105 centres targeted for completion in Darrang before Durga Puja in October and ...

When a figure from his past turns up to a family funeral, a college professor faces an agonising dilemma that makes him question his own morality and whether he can change Paul Schrader is back with ...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 4: The Manicktala Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja Committee today announced 'Nishan - The Mark' as the theme of its 84th Durga Puja along with the release of ...

Elders of the Ramnami Samaj of Chhattisgarh — a devotional community whose members inscribe the name of Ram across their bodies, a practice that began in the 1890s as a peaceful answer to being denied ...

Sundeep Bhutoria with Pt Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Shishir Bajoria, and Ashok Jaiswal at the Chaltabagan press meet in Kolkata with Ramnani Samaj members from Chhattisgarh.