Gold imports rise by 72% Oct 30, 2009
"The volume of shipment increas 00004000 ed due to festive season demand starting with Durga Puja and navratri and followed by dhanteras and Diwali," Bombay Bullion Association director Suresh Hundia said. However, he said the imports are likely to fall from this level in October after the festival demand is over. (India Times)
All about Yo-Yo dieting! Oct 21, 2009
One sandesh led to five during Durga puja, and now youve had one too many karanjis. But dont try to banish the ghosts of pedhas past with sudden starvation or two-day detoxes. (India Times, India)
Industry revising targets as sales increase: Survey Oct 19, 2009
The peak season for them starts from September with Onam and Durga puja and continues through Diwali and Christmas till the new year. Auto companies are the major beneficiary. (India Times, India -- Intl Business)
Indian Shoppers Splurge for Diwali Oct 17, 2009
Jewellery brand Tanishq, part of Tata Group's lifestyle retail company Titan has witnessed sales growth of over 30% since Durga Puja this year over the same period last year. However, not everyone sees this as a cracking year for sales. (BusinessWeek)
Toll rises to 41 in Bihar boat tragedies Sep 30, 2009
PATNA: The death toll in Bihar's twin tragedies, when two boats carrying Durga Puja revellers capsized in the Kosi and Bagmati rivers, has gone up to 41 with 11 more bodies being recovered, officials said on Wednesday ... In Khagaria, over 80 villagers returning from a fair to mark the end of Durga Puja, packed into a boat that had a capacity of 30 ... The death toll in Bihar's twin tragedies, when two boats carrying Durga Puja revellers capsized in the Kosi and Bagmati rivers, has gone up to 41... (India Times, India -- Community News)
Recession hits hard Durga Puja business Sep 26, 2009
KOLKATA: Recession has hit hard the export of Durga Puja idols ... Artisans start exporting idols to foreign countries two-three months before the Durga Puja because it takes at least takes 45 days to reach the destination by ship ... Recession has hit hard the export of Durga Puja idols. (India Times)
Durga Puja in Kolkata's grandest houses Sep 24, 2009
As the monsoon in its last spell pours heavily, bringing a smile to the faces of the farmers across rural Bengal, it creates problems for the organizers of Durga Puja in the city. Roads are dug up for all manner of Durga Puja related construction and decoration ... These houses are many; either that of zamindar families and Rajas or even rich Bengali families who have conducted Durga Puja at home for over a hundred years. (India Times)
Pranab to don a priest's mantle Sep 24, 2009
SURI: Far from the hurly-burly of politics, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee plays another role at this time of the year -- a priest worshipping Goddess Durga. Mukherjee worships the Goddess at Miriti, his ancestral village near Kirnahar in Birbhum district, 200 km from Kolkata. (India Times)
Celebrating Durga Puja in rural Bengal Sep 24, 2009
Durga Puja in rural Bengal- ET Travel-Features-The Economic Times ... Durga Puja in rural Bengal24 Sep 2009, 0551 hrs IST, Disharee Bose, ET Bureau ... Disharee Bose returned to her ancestral village in Bengal to find something missing in the idyllic environs: Durga Puja. (India Times)
Journeys divine: Durga Puja is when Bengalis travel Sep 24, 2009
Nothing touches the chords of nostalgia like the sights, sounds, smells and flavours of Durga Puja ... For me, this time of the year is incomplete without all of these so I never travel at this time to any place where there is no Durga Puja ... For years we made it back to Delhi from whatever corner of the world we were posted, to be there at one small Durga Puja that my parents and other sarkari couples began in 1956. (India Times)
No cash for an IPL team, says Rani Sep 22, 2009
What's on her mind right now is having a blast during the ongoing Durga Puja. "I am just hoping I can have a great time with my family and celebrate Durga Puja as I used to celebrate it as a kid. This time luckily I have kept no commitments during that time; so I am just hoping that this year I'll have a blast," Rani said. (India Times, India)
Kolkata sex workers to go pandal hopping Sep 21, 2009
KOLKATA: Durga Puja is incomplete without clay collected from their doorstep ... "We strongly felt that sex workers are somehow cast aside during Durga puja, our biggest festival. They also must get to join the puja revelry. So, we have decided to felicitate them and take them around to see pujas. It will be our tribute to them. We want to bring a smile on their face at least on these four days," Banerjee said ... Durga Puja is incomplete without clay collected from their doorstep. (India Times, India)
Goddess Durga and odes to Asia's Paris Sep 19, 2009
But Calcutta lingered in the mind, sometimes emerging more sharply, as it did this with the collision of Durga Puja, Swayzes death and past chronicles of Calcutta this week ... An early mention of the Durga Puja, in a Statesman edition of 1882, is titled "Religious Fete". (Asia Times Online)
Israel warns India of more 26/11s Sep 19, 2009
Meanwhile, the Centre has issued a routine terror alert to the states ahead of the festival season asking them to step up vigil in crowded areas, especially the sites of festivities such as Navratri Dandiya Raas, Ramlila and Dussehra, besides at Durga Puja pandals ... The upcoming week is crowded with festivals with Durga Puja starting on Saturday and ending with Dussehra on September 28, even as Id-ul-Fitr falls on Monday. (India Times)
The Hindu Festivals of Navratri and... Sep 13, 2009
In Bengal the celebrations are known as Durga Puja and commemorate the slaying of by the Goddess Durga ... The Bengalis living in Bombay celebrate Durga Puja with as much fervor that one sees in Ganesh Chaturthi ... Durga Puja; Accessed at Durga-puja. (Suite101.com)
Expat money boosts Bangladesh Sep 7, 2009
The increase in remittances could also be partly due to two upcoming religious occasions - the Muslim festival of Ramadan and the major Hindu religious celebration of Durga Puja. However, the upward trend may not continue for long, as overseas employment has fallen in past months due to declining demand. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Life in times of inflation Sep 6, 2009
No new clothes for Durga Puja. Delhi: Sipra Sircar already knows what she will pray for during Durga puja next month ... And for the first time since they married, the Sircars won't be buying new clothes for Durga Puja. (India Times, India)
Lashkar makes I-Day plans for metros Aug 7, 2009
The alert would extend to the upcoming religious events and festival season as well, starting with the month of Ramzan that begins on August 21 followed by Durga Puja, Dussehra and Diwali. More than 200 cases of infiltration have been recorded so far in 2009, compared to just 263 cases in the whole of 2008. (India Times)
