KMC asks puja bodies to clear pandals, banners
With the Durga Puja festivities getting over, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has asked the Puja committees to fill up the holes created for erecting pandals.
With the Durga Puja festivities getting over, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has asked the Puja committees to fill up the holes created for erecting pandals.
Amid the dengue scare gripping the city after the Durga Pujas getting over, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation is now considering cracking the whip on the owners of the vacant plots.
The Kolkata Metro Railway while carrying over 40 lakh commuters has registered a nine per cent increase in the issuance of smart cards during the peak days of Durga Puja in the Blue Line.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will attend the Durga Puja carnival scheduled to be held on Red Road tomorrow.
The state government is going to organise the first Durga Puja carnival in Bolpur town to celebrate the Unesco World Heritage site tag awarded to Shantiniketan on 17 September.
With the biggest festival of the year round the corner, the truck operators are appre- hensive because of the restrictions…
Although the order was passed on Friday, a copy of that order was uploaded to the website on Saturday.
With just a few months left for Durga Puja, idols of the goddess are all set to go abroad from Kumartuli, the clay modellers' colony in north Kolkata.
A few Durga Puja Committees have taken the pledge to have environmentally friendly products as they start apreparations for the annual event. One of them, Railpukur United Club, has decided to shun PVC and flex for banners. Instead, they are relying on jute and cloth ones to spread the message across.
The "Royal Rajasthan Bharat Gaurav Special Tourist Train" travel package has been introduced as part of the IRCTC's "Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat" campaign in time for the approaching Durga Puja festival.