Balrampur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Oct 9 (ANI): Eight people were arrested after a clash erupted between two groups during an idol immersion procession here on Wednesday.
Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Oct 9 (ANI): Dussehra festival in Devaragatta village of Kurnool district is celebrated in a unique way every year. People of five villages form two separate groups and fight with each other to claim the idol of their deity on the occasion of Vijayadashami.
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Oct 9 (ANI): Marking an end to Dussehra celebrations, idols of Goddess Kanakadurga and Lord Malleswara were taken on the boat in river Krishna here in the evening.
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], Oct 8 (ANI): With the nine-day long Navratri festival coming to an end, devotees on Tuesday bid adieu to Goddess Durga and performed immersion of the idols installed at various puja pandals.
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Oct 7 (ANI): While people across the country were seen offering prayers to idols of Goddess Durga on Maha Ashtami, a five-year-old girl here was worshipped as the living embodiment of Maa Durga following an age-old tradition called 'Kumari Puja'.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Oct 5 (ANI): The city's transgender community has organised a special Durga Puja by offering prayers to unique Durga idol -- Ardh Nariswar -- depicting half Shiva and half Parvati.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Oct 03 (ANI): Continuing their tradition of using precious metals and stones to adorn goddess Durga for the third consecutive year, a puja committee here has installed her idol made of 50 kg gold at the pandal.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Oct 1 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday here said that people don't have to take permission from the high court to immerse Goddess Durga's idol anymore after the BJP won 18 parliamentary seats in the state.
Washington D.C [USA], Sept 30 (ANI): Singer Carrie Underwood marked 15th anniversary of her American Idol audition by celebrating women in country music.
Kalaburagi (Karnataka) [India], Sept 29 (ANI): Police in Kalaburagi on Sunday arrested a 52-year-old woman for stealing silver idols worth approximately Rs.3 lakh, from multiple houses.