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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...

KOLKATA: Bengal’s Durga Puja economy could well have touched the Rs 50,000-crore mark this year with puja organisers, advertisers, retailers and restaurants registering a 20% hike in businesses over 2022. Kolkata is expected to account for around 20% of the pie at Rs 10,000 crore. Last year, total transactions were estimated to be around Rs 40,000 crore, up from Rs 32,377 crore in 2019.The 2019 figure...

Delhiites had a dandiya outing with Harshdeep Kaur over the weekend as the singer performed in the city for a dandiya festival. Though it was not Harshdeep’s first time performing at a garba festival, she told us she was excited to perform with her band. “I had created a special set list for this occasion. It was a mix of my popular Bollywood songs, some traditional folk songs, and fusion music. But...

NEW DELHI: Delhi government has decided to restart the bike ambulance service to provide first aid for emergencies at home. The scheme is expected to be rolled out in the next three months.The government had in February 2019 launched 16 first-responder vehicles in East, Northeast Delhi and Shahdara districts as a pilot project. "Centralised Accident and Trauma Services (CATS) used to operate 16 bike...

KOLKATA: The southwest monsoon is very likely to withdraw from Bengal on Friday, making it the earliest date of withdrawal in at least five years. Despite the three-day delay from the normal date of October 10, the monsoon withdrawal this year is to be a week earlier than last year. In contrast to the current absence of weather systems in the Bay of Bengal this year, frequent development of cyclonic...

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Monday set the ball rolling for assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram - the last electoral battle in the run-up to 2024 general election - by announcing a 24-day poll window extending from November 7 to November 30.Chhattisgarh will be the only state to have polling in two phases, with the assembly constituencies in the...

MUMBAI: In what will come as a huge relief to women train commuters, who comprise at least 25% of those travelling by trains, Central Railway announced setting up of women's 'powder rooms', which includes four highly sanitised toilets, at seven busy stations - Ghatkopar, Kanjurmarg, Mulund, Thane, Mankhurd, Chembur and Lokmanya Tilak Terminus."...On our railway premises, it will be a hygienic and...

NEW DELHI: Domestic market leader IndiGo will levy a distance-based "fuel charge" ranging from Rs 300 to Rs 1,000 on all its flights due to increase in aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices. This comes into effect from today. While comments were sought from other airlines, SpiceJet said it will levy a fuel charge without giving details.Other airlines are also likely to follow suit as the costing pressure...

KOLKATA: Number of cadaver organ donations in Bengal is set to rise from 15 in 2022 to at least 18 to 19 this year - an increment which is encouraging but could have been better, felt experts at a seminar on organ donation held at a city private hospital on Saturday. It stressed on the need for more brain death declarations to increase the number of deceased organ donations in which Bengal has fallen...

NEW DELHI: India captain Rohit Sharma on Tuesday revealed that the squad for the third ODI against Australia is dealing with various challenges and five players will be unavailable for the dead rubber in Rajkot. The Indian squad has been hit by viral sickness and some have made the decision to return home.Leading the 3-match series 2-0, India have been left with just 13 players to select from for the...