Offering and consuming non-vegetarian food during Durga Puja has long been a tradition in West Bengal. Before it became a community event, or Sarbojanin, many Bonedi Bari (aristocratic households) ...

A print advertisement for a BJP programme on the occasion of Durga Puja has sparked a massive row in West Bengal, providing much ammunition to the opposition Trinamool Congress. In face of Trinamool ...

West Bengal Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari set out this year’s rules for Durga Puja at a meeting with Durga Puja organisers on Monday evening. Bengal’s biggest festival will be held between October ...

A controversy has erupted in Bengal with calls from various quarters for non-vegetarian food to be kept away from Durga Puja pandals. Hindutva organisations and religious preachers are now appealing ...

On August 26, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad told organisers of one of India’s biggest festivals how Durga Puja should be conducted: what the goddess should look like, who could be involved in the event ...

As we inch closer to fall, it’s time to take a look at this year’s biggest boot trends. We noticed an unusually high interest in different textures and silhouettes this year. Perhaps we have the ...

Bengal's Durga Puja is as much religious as it is social. Durga Puja just weeks away, is it possible that Bengal this time is heading for another version of pujo - a more kosher, Sanatani version that ...

KOLKATA: Days after Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) issued a diktat against serving non-vegetarian food in and around Durga Puja mandaps in West Bengal this year, a major controversy broke out over the ...

If the Bharatiya Janata Party comes to power, can the Vishwa Hindu Parishad be far behind? The VHP is supposed to be a non-political body with no member elected to government office. Yet it lays down ...

The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has issued a set of guidelines ahead of this year's Durga Puja celebrations in West Bengal, calling on puja committees to follow traditional practices and keep ...

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has urged Durga Puja organisers in West Bengal to follow “traditional” religious practices, including keeping meat outside puja pandals, India Today reported on Wednesday. It ...

Kolkata: The Vishva Hindu Parishad has criticised previous Durga Puja themes in which idols of the goddess were "distorted" and urged puja organisers here to adhere to traditional rituals so that ...