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Yogi plays religious card
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Barasat (West Bengal) [India], May 15 (ANI): Seeking to play the religious card, Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday alleged that the West Bengal government tried to ban Durga Puja to accommodate Muharram procession.
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Hyderabad: GHMC forms special team to combat Hussain Sagar pollution
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Oct 21 (ANI): The back-to-back immersions during the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi and Durga Puja have left the Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad polluted.
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Kanpur: Artificial pond for idol immersion poses health scare
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Kanpur, (Uttar Pradesh) [India] Oct 20 (ANI): Artificial pond created to immerse Goddess Durga's idol in Kanpur failed to achieve its aim of eco-friendly celebration as it poses health scare among locals here.
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Durga Puja celebrations at DLF Club5 come to an end with Visarjan
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 20 (NewsVoir): Dussehra was celebrated with utmost joy and fervor at the premises of Club5 by the residents of DLF5 on Friday.
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Durga Puja: Transgenders break traditions, take part in 'Sindoor Khela'
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Oct 19 (ANI): Like a final flicker of a lamp before it extinguishes, Bengali women participate in 'Sindoor Khela' on Vijaydashami as a final indulgence in the intoxicating Durga Puja celebrations.
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Dussehra: As diverse as India
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 19 (ANI): In a country as diverse as India, it is a given really that different regions will have their own adaptations for celebrating Dussehra, the festival marking good over evil.
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Reshuffle in Bihar cabinet expected after Durga Puja
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): After Durga Puja, the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government's cabinet is likely to be reshuffled and expanded.
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Durga Puja rush: Kolkata Metro records highest-ever footfall
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 17 (ANI): The Kolkata Metro has recorded the highest-ever footfall of approximately 9.11 lakh passengers on the occasion of Shashti, the sixth day of the hindu festival of Navratri on Monday.
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AIAMA donates 5ft agarbathi for Durga Puja celebrations in Bengaluru
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 17 (NewsVoir): Durga Puja is not only a festival of victory of goddess Durga over an evil but is a celebration of the harvest festival that marks the goddess as the motherly power behind all of life and creation.
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Odisha: Durga Puja pandals take shape of iconic monuments
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Oct 17 (ANI): Durga Puja pandals in Odisha's capital city of Bhubaneswar are giving a glimpse of monuments from different parts of the country and the world to all those visiting on the occasion.
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Pandal made of peanut shells grabs attention of devotees
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Thane (Maharashtra) [India], Oct16 (ANI): As Durga Puja is being celebrated across the nation with great fervour, Thane's Ulhasnagar has gone eco-friendly with a pandal made of peanut shells.
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Patna: Cops caught sleeping during a briefing on law and order
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Oct 15 (ANI): A few police officers were spotted sleeping during a law and order briefing here in the wake of the Durga Puja.
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