Mahalaya

Shubho Mahalaya 2019: With a week left for Bengal's annual festival, devotees observe auspicious day to welcome Goddess Durga

Shubho Mahalaya 2019: Falling a week before West Bengal's most popular annual festival, Durga puja, comes Mahalaya. This year, the auspicious day falls on Saturday, (28 September), according to the Hindu calendar.

JP Nadda performs mass 'tarpan' for 80 slain BJP workers in West Bengal, says 'reign of terror' in state

JP Nadda on Saturday performed a 'mass tarpan' for party workers who lost their lives in political violence in West Bengal in the last few years.

BJP Mohila Morcha to organise 'Sindoor Khela' in West Bengal on ‘Mahalaya’, says party MP Locket Chatterjee

Chatterjee blamed Mamata Banerjee of 'doing politics with public money' by promising to give Rs 25,000 to every community Durga Puja committee

Ahead of Durga Puja, devotees observe Mahalaya as a remembrance of their ancestors

Observed seven days before the Durga Pooja, Mahalaya marks the beginning of the Devi Paksha and end of the Pitru Paksha, the mourning period in the Hindu calendar

Bengali superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee announces six feature films to be made under his production banner

Prosenjit Chatterjee informed that the projects currently in the pipeline are — Uranchandi, Mahalaya, Das Da, Kolkata Company, Abar Asitechhe and an unnamed one.

A week before Durga Puja, devotees offer prayers to ancestors on Mahalaya

On the occasion of Mahalaya, devotees perform 'Pind Daan' during traditional Hindu ritual of 'tarpan', for the peace of the souls of ancestors, on the banks of the River Ganga near the Howrah Bridge in Kolkata on Tuesday.

Shubho Mahalaya: How Goddess Durga came to be known as Mahishasura Mardini

On the occasion of Mahalaya, we trace the legend of how Goddess Durga slayed the demon Mahishasura to become known as 'Mahishasura Mardini'