As the veil lifts across big and small mandals during Ganeshotsav, pandal-hoppers are expected to throng certain venues, partly owing to their lavish themes or simply their wish-fulfilment quotient.
Immersions of several big idols, including the popular Lalbaugcha Raja, continued into Friday morning, the official added.
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Nine more bodies were recovered from the Yamuna river on Thursday, taking the death toll to 17, during the immersion of statutes of Lord Ganesha on Wednesday.
Bollywood stars bid Lord Ganesha adieu.
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Lord Ganesha has arrived once again to a rousing welcome, heralding the beginning of the ten-day-long Ganeshotsav.
The 'Chhota don' may be down but certainly not out. And the same can be said of the Ganesh pandal once patronised by him, reports Anil Singh.
The animated characters of Lord Ganesha and Mooshak are consistently endearing throughout the film as they go around performing their naughty antics.
The fatality rate has further dropped to 2.07 per cent, the data stated.
We had asked our readers to mail us photos of their Ganesha. We received many entries, some of which are being showcased here.
With Ganesha making his way into our homes for the next ten days we are inviting you to share your Ganpati videos with us
With Ganesha making his way into our homes for the next ten days we are inviting you to share your Ganpati videos with us
We bring you snapshots of the many forms of the elephant-headed deity
Some of the exiting entries for Lord Ganesha's visit straight from our readers' homes.
The Ganpati from the Lalbaug pandal being taken for immersion
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This huge 52-foot Ganesha idol was made by nearly 100 workers over 50 days, in Khairatabad town in Andhra Pradesh.
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As India all set to welcome Ganapati Bappa, we bring you snapshots of the many forms of the elephant-headed deity.
Snapshots of the many forms of the elephant-headed deity.
For the second straight year, the pandemic cast a long shadow on festivities with the Maharashtra government placing a slew of restrictions to avoid gathering and processions.
Use of Plaster of Paris at Ganesh festivals has been a bone of contention amongst devotees, organisers and ecologists. Abhishek Mande travels to Pen, where the Ganesha making industry finds itself entangled between faith and business viability.
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All proceeds from the e-auction will be donated towards funding the Namami Gange Mission.
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The use of Plaster of Paris to make huge Ganesha idols has been a bone of contention amongst devotees, organisers and ecologists. Nithya Ramani finds out that for the common man, it is more a question of faith and his pocket than environment when it comes to choosing his Ganesha murti.
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Randhir and Rajeev Kapoor welcome the festival with much fanfare.
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A look at the pictures.
One person was killed in police firing and eight were injured in a clash between members of two communities during Ganesha idol immersion at Fatehpura locality of Vadodara on Monday, police said. Police opened fire to control the violence that erupted in the communally-sensitive area, following an argument between revelers participating in Ganesha immersion and residents of the area on Sunday night.
Satish Bodas goes pandal hopping and discovers these historically significant ones.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his cabinet colleagues Pankaja Munde and Vinod Tawde, Union minister Nitin Gadkari, state minister Sadabhau Khot, former Union Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi were prominent among those who installed Ganpati idols at their homes.
This Ganeshotsav welcome the elephant God with this easy-to-make recipe.
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