to Dashami (October 12), covering the beginning and end of Durga puja, he said.

Durga puja, West Bengal's biggest carnival, is likely to be subdued this year as calls to boycott the festivities grow in response to protests over the brutal rape-murder of a woman doctor at RG ...

The famed 'puja spirit' that takes hold of Bengal each August, rising in a crescendo till the four-day Durga Puja festivities ... data from the Confederation of West Bengal Trade Associations ...

Durga Puja is known to be one of ... Poila Baisakh in Bengal, and Cheti Chand for Sindhis. The day involves home cleaning, decoration, new clothes, prayers, and festive feasts, symbolizing renewal ...

The West Bengal government has earned a whopping state excise income of Rs 600 crore through sale of liquor during the four days of the just concluded Durga Puja festival in the state.

Bengali Association of Calgary (Hindu Bengalis from East and West Bengal) and Deshantri of Ottawa. All these groups celebrate Durga Puja in their own way. However, the Bengali community in Windsor ...