Diwali runs from Saturday, October 18 through to Thursday, October 23, 2025.
Bollywood actresses amp up the glamour this festive season.
Film families celebrate Diwali with memorable pictures on social media.
Jayanti Soni and her family return each year to Bhinmal, when they can, to celebrate Diwali in her family home.
Vidhya Pant remembers the Diwalis celebrated in her home in Shillong in the 1960s.
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Bank customers better brace for a whopping 21 bank holidays in October.
"If we burst firecrackers on this Diwali, we are playing with the lives of our children and families," he added.
Private buses and taxis in West Bengal may go off the roads after the Durga Puja if fares are not increased, even as operators are pinning their hopes on an assurance by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to look into the issue after Lakshmi Puja.
Diwali is a season in India for sweet-making. A treasure of traditional Diwali recipes from all corners of our India.
Zelda Pande recounts the specialness with which Diwali was celebrated in her home in Ranchi.
A division bench of the high court comprising Justices Sanjib Banerjee and Arijit Banerjee, while hearing a public interest litigation, said that no visitors will be allowed to enter the marquees. For small pandals, barricades will have to be put up five metres from the entrance, while for the bigger ones, the distance has to be 10 metres, the court ordered.
'If Mr Modi and Mr Shah have made a poisonous, polarising campaign their brahmastra for 2019, Mamata Banerjee is showing them its limitations,' says Shekhar Gupta.
Desis in the US recall their earliest celebration of the festival of lights on American soil. Chaya Babu reports
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