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KOLKATA: Durga Puja is over this year but organisers have been busy preparing for the Red Road Durga Puja carnival, the spectacular event on Red Road where over 100 puja organisers will strut with the idols and tableaux on Friday afternoon.While some members have been busy practising their dance moves, others are going through the finer details of the attire that everybody will be wearing at the...

CHENNAI: Leading the party in celebrating the AIADMK’s 52nd founding day, former chief minister and party general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday asserted that his party would lead a grand alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and win all 40 seats, including the lone Puducherry seat. “People are disillusioned with the DMK and the AIADMK will return to office again in 2026,”...

Like every year, many popular actors are performing in one of Delhi’s oldest Ramlilas. Before they kicked off the 10-day-long hectic schedule of daily performances, we caught up some of them for off-stage chit-chat"Once I am in the attire of Ram, there is a sense of responsibility. I am really happy playing the role of Ram again. I have been brought up in Kirti Nagar, I remember how we used to make...

One of India’s renowned royal trains and a prestigious project of the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation, the Deccan Odyssey Luxury Tourist Train, has emerged from a major post-pandemic refurbishment, ready to embark on its renewed journey. This revitalization project inaugurated on September 21 by assembly speaker Rahul Narvekar, tourism minister Girish Mahajan, and school education and...

MUMBAI: A new pearly white ornament rose against the South Mumbai skyline Friday evening even as the half moon framed it from the rear. The GPO (General Post Office) building near Fort, the headquarters of the postal department, dedicated its grand dome, which has been retrofitted and renovated, to the citizenry. This grand architectural feature is the second largest dome in the country after the Gol...