Durga Ashtami, also known as Maha Ashtami, is one of the most significant days during the grand Durga Puja celebrations. In ...

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Kanchan Paul is deep in concentration as he paints the right eye on a clay idol of the Hindu goddess ...

Minority Hindus in the Muslim-majority Bangladesh are celebrating their largest religious festival of Durga Puja, but fear ...

Vanquishing the asuras Chand and Mund as Chamunda Devi and slaying the buffalo demon Mahishasur as Goddess Durga, She exemplifies the power, force, agency and glory of women to fight against ...

Devotees wait with sacrificial chickens as they prepare to enter Balkumari Temple during Dashain festival in Thimi, Bhaktapur ...

According to Hindu tradition, Goddess Durga manifests in the mortal realm in her 10-armed form on Mahalaya in a bid to ...

Dussehra coincides with two other festivals, Navratri and Durga Puja, with Dussehra marking the end of their celebrations, according to Britannica. Its name comes from the Sanskrit words dasha, “ten,” ...

The day of the Dussehra festival also marks the end of the five-day Durga Puja festival, the biggest holiday for India’s ...

On Wednesday last, the Hindu community people celebrated Mahalaya inviting Goddess Durga to her paternal home earth from ...

Hindu devotees immersed idols in a river for the Durga Puja festival. Worshippers gathered to perform rituals and prayers before dipping the deity's statue into the water in Bihar, India, on October ...

We became content and puja is taking place across the country,” he said. An idol of Hindu goddess Durga is seen as curtains of a tableau opens at Dhakeshwari National Temple during the Durgapuja ...

Hindu devotees bid farewell to the Goddess Durga, who is believed to have left the mortal world for her marital home in the ...