Durga Puja

Top actors of the Hindi film industry took to various social media platforms to post their best wishes on the occasion of Dussehra. Among those who used the platforms were celebrities Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma, Arjun Kapoor, Sara Ali Khan, Anil Kapoor, Taapsee...

Kolkata: The five- day long Durga Puja festivities in Bengal came to an end Tuesday, with revellers queuing up near river banks and lakes for idol immersion as they bid adieu to goddess Durga. Dressed in traditional outfits, devotees scrambled to touch the feet of...

Finally as the curtain comes down on the five-day long Durga Puja festivities Orissa POST takes a look at some of the celebrations across the twin cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar. It has been a really enjoyable 2019 Durga Puja with the rain not playing...

Kolkata: Grand feasts and pandal-hopping marked the celebrations on Maha Navami - the penultimate day of the five-day Durga puja festival - with revellers seen lining up before prominent pandals in the city, mostly dressed in traditional outfits. Illumination carried out at a puja pandal...

Kolkata: A city Durga Puja committee, with a senior Trinamool Congress leader as its patron, has courted controversy by playing ‘Azaan’ along with Sanskrit hymns as the theme music of the festivities, drawing threat of legal action. The organisers, however, remained unfazed, insisting it was...

Bhubaneswar: Today is the ninth day of Navaratri or Mahanavami, the third and last day of Durga Puja. All the puja mandaps across the state are witnessing a huge gathering of devotees waiting for their turn to offer puja to ‘Mahishasuramardini’ or the ‘annihilator of...

Come Dussehra and once again the victory of good over evil will be celebrated amid much fanfare across the country. On home turf, the scene isn’t any different. With just a few days to go for Dussehra, preparations for Ravana Podi are in full swing....

Kolkata: Characters of Liliputs and Gulliver from a popular novel and the old-world charm of Kolkata of yesteryears are the main attractions of two big-budget Durga Pujas here in this city, that are drawing huge crowds. At the FD Block Puja in Salt Lake, scenes...

In Hindu mythology, ‘Vahana’ or vehicle on which God or Goddess mount is the representation of some extraordinary power. When Goddess Durga killed Demon king Mahisasur, she was offered a white lion that is symbol of strength, braveness and life. It may also show that...

Goddess Durga indicates the confluence of power of all goddesses. Maa Durga is ferocious to demons and at the same time highly kind to her devotees. She waged a war against the evil forces to save the world from troubles. Thus, the form of Lord...