India celebrates Diwali with fervour, Delhi AQI worsens

Buildings were decorated with colourful lights and earthen lamps dotted houses as people across the country thronged temples and celebrated Diwali with pomp on Monday. IMAGE: Women dressed in......

Modi Performs Maa Durga Aarti

Glimpses of Prime Minister Narendra Modi participating in Durga Puja celebrations at Chittaranjan Park in New Delhi on the occasion of Maha Ashtami on Tuesday, September 30, 2025.   IMAGE: Modi......

Day after Diwali, Delhi records worst air quality since 2021

The air quality in Delhi plummeted on Tuesday post Diwali as residents flouted the Supreme Court-mandated time slots for bursting of firecrackers, even as the city government blamed the Aam Aadmi......

Goddess Kali gets the final touch

An artist in Kolkata, October 25, 2021, gives the final touches to an idol of Goddess Kali ahead of the Kali Puja festival. Please click on the image for a better look at the latest in our Yeh Hai......

Light and Love for Ranbir-Alia this Diwali

Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor made a cute couple at the Kali Puja at the North Bombay Sarbojanin Durga Puja Samiti on November 4. The Samiti is headed by Deb Mukherjee, their close friend and......

'I will miss my loving sweet Dada'

'The sweetest, warmest and loving man ever, always smiling, very innocent and child-like.' IMAGE: Alka Yagnik with Bappi Lahiri. Photograph: Kind courtesy Alka Yagnik/Instagram Alka Yagnik sang......

'I am the godfather of disco'

'You make a hit, everything is fit.' IMAGE: Bappi Lahiri at home. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, who popularised disco music in India in the 1980s and......

Bangladeshi man arrested for threatening cricketer

Photograph: Kind Courtesy  Shakib Al Hasan/Instagram Bangladesh police, on Tuesday, arrested a man who allegedly issued death threats to cricket all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan for inaugurating a......

India-England Kolkata ODI advanced to Oct 25

The fifth and final one-dayer between India and England, which was scheduled to be played at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on October 26, has been advanced by a day due to Kali Puja celebrations in......

ODI World Cup Schedule: Another date change for Pakistan?

IMAGE: Pakistan’s match at the Eden Gardens might see a date change. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters The Cricket Association of Bengal on Saturday requested ICC recce team about concerns......

Chaos reigns at Eden even as Rohit Sharma not allowed to inspect pitch

Whenever there is an international match at the Eden Gardens, its curator Prabir Mukherjee finds himself in the news for all the wrong reasons. This time the septuagenarian finds himself in the eye......

Tendulkar's farewell series: Carnival starts in Kolkata

The 'Sachin Tendulkar Carnival' is all set to hit Kolkata with the CAB, organisers of his penultimate Test match, chalking out an elaborate list of plans to felicitate the legend as he prepares to......