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Protests Hit Retail Ahead of Durga Puja

West Bengal is home to 43,000 Durga Pujas, and the business around it is a major economic driver. IMAGE: People perform a street play during a protest condemning the rape and murder of a trainee......

Bengali theatre icon returns state award over doctor's murder

Amid protests by civil society organisations over the rape-murder of a trainee doctor, Bengali theatre personality Biplab Bandyopadhyay on Tuesday announced returning the state-instituted......

Bahraich violence: Internet back, police warn against rumours

Internet services were restored in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district on Thursday as local authorities continued to work towards restoring normalcy in and around Maharajganj where a 22-year-old man......

'Exhausted In This Long Fight For Justice'

Two months after a junior doctor was brutally raped and killed, the doctors' protest in Kolkata rages on. IMAGE: A protest at Central Avenue demanding justice for the rape and murder of a junior......

3 kids among 5 dead in massive fire in Durga Puja pandal in UP

Three children were among five people killed and 64 injured after a fire broke out in a Durga Puja pandal here due to overheating of a halogen light, officials said on Monday. IMAGE: Charred......

Durga Puja rights sold to a US company

Taking corporatisation of Durga Puja festival to a new height, a prominent puja committee in Kolkata has sold the rights of the celebrations to a US company and roped in a Bollywood superstar as......

Durga puja can be a global crowd puller

Durga puja's approach sends nervous shivers down some Calcutta spines. But though acutely aware of the inconveniences associated with the orgiastic festivity, I can see why, properly handled, this......

Thank God for DeMo, GST!

'Much as I have been enjoying the anti-GST jokes on WhatsApp and also worrying about the economy in a tailspin in more serious moments, there is a tiny part of me that is thankful to Modi and......

For Pranab, Puja back home more important than LA

Like his boss Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the government's chief trouble-shooter, is deprived of the luxury of holidays. But for the four days of Durga Puja,......

Pranab the priest performs Puja!

To his colleagues in the Congress party, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is known as a man of all seasons, a man of punctuality and precision. We saw the finance minister in a new avatar,......

Rani, Sanjay Dutt's day of prayer

Here's what your favourite celebrities have been up to. Rani Mukherji makes a pretty picture as she seeks the blessings of goddess Durga in Mumbai on Wednesday. Rani along with her mother......

Kajol, Tanuja, Tanishaa get into the festive mood

Candid moments at the Durga Puja pandal. Kajol seems to be enjoying every moment of Durja Puja, celebrated at the North Bombay Sarbojanin Durga Puja Samiti in Juhu, a western suburb of Mumbai,......

PIX: Kajol, Tanuja, Tanishaa in festive mode

Candid moments at the Durga Puja pandal. Kajol made pretty pictures with her family at the Durga Puja celebrations organised by the North Bombay Sarbojanin Durga Puja Samiti at Juhu, a western......

Spotted! Sharmila Tagore in London

Reader Kaushik Bhattacharya sent uspictures of Sharmila Tagore, who was in London for the Durgapuja/Dusserah celebrations. The actress was reciting Bengali poems for a Bijoya Dashami cultural......

Dada, Lara Celebrate Durga Puja

IMAGE: Sourav Ganguly at the Durga Puja celebrations in Howrah. Photograph: ANI/X Cricket legends Sourav Ganguly and Brian Lara joined the Durga Puja festivities in Kolkata on Sunday,......

Sprinter Hima Das takes oath as DSP in Assam

IMAGE: Hima Das revealed that she had dreamt of becoming a police officer when she was young. Photograph: Kind Courtesy, Sarbananda Sonowal/Twitter Star sprinter Hima Das was, on Friday,......

Will wait 30 mins for you but win us a medal in Tokyo: Big B to Dipa

My next aim is to beat Simone Biles in Tokyo 2020, that's my target. I know very well that if I aspire to beat the champion, I would at least finish with a gold or silver: Dipa IMAGE: Dipa......

Tax War: ICC wants BCCI's annual revenue slashed

All the details from the meetings of the Committee of Administrators (CoA) held on July 6 and on June 29 IMAGE: CoA chief Vinod Rai. Photograph: PTI The BCCI is set to seek advice from an English......

Sehwag spoke foolishly, says angry Ganguly

IMAGE: Sourav Ganguly. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Saturday said Virender Sehwag 'spoke foolishly' when he claimed that 'lack of setting' cost him......

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