Birbhum (West Bengal) [India], October 5 (ANI): Women bid adieu to Goddess Durga with 'Sindoor Khela' on the occasion of Vijay Dashmi at a pandal in Birbhum, West Bengal.
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], October 1 (ANI): The fervour of Durga Puja remains incomplete without the maddening beats of dhak, the large drum-like instrument that men hang around their necks and play with two thin sticks to infuse the frenzied rhythm enhancing the festive aura.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 28 (ANI): The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly inaugurated a Durga puja pandal in Kolkata on Tuesday.
Karimganj (Assam) [India], August 25 (ANI): With just a month left for the Durga Puja festival, an artisan from Assam's Karimganj district is all set to send a fiberglass-made idol of Goddess Durga to London.
Dhaka [Bangladesh] October 19 (ANI): A rights group informed that around 3,721 attacks were reported on the Hindu community in Bangladesh in the last nine years.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], October 15 (ANI): Sex workers in Sonagachhi in Kolkata, said to be Asia's largest red-light area, performed Debi Boron, Sindoor Khela and Dhunuchi dance on the occasion of Vijaya Dashami on Friday.
Bhaktapur [Nepal], October 15 (ANI): Quite a few Hindu devotees in Nepal performed a unique ritual on Vijaya Dashami on Friday: they lied down, covered the body with cow dung and placed lit oil-fed lamps over it to thank the gods for answering prayers.
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 15 (ANI): In a rare instance seen anywhere in the country Ravana is being worshipped in a temple here in Kanpur on the occasion of Vijaya Dashami on Friday.
Nagpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Mohan Bhagat on the occasion of Vijaya Dashami or Dussehra in a speech said that the divides are widened to gain political power.
He targeted the government in different states and said they should work in unison with the centre rather than using the religious difference to stay in power, “There is a divide between the two states in India, the police of both states attack each other kill each other.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 15 (ANI): Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Friday made a veiled attack at Mohan Bhagwat, chief of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which is the ideological mentor of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), over this statement that the narcotics business is used to fund anti-national activities and PM Narendra Modi had assured that demonetisation would curb the drug mafia.