The ‘pat er Durga’, where the Goddess Durga is created on cloth instead of the more conventional clay, traces its origins to Odisha’s Patachitra paintings.
In a small tribal village on the eastern tip of India, an enterprising teacher has turned walls into blackboards and roads into classrooms, trying to close the gap in learning brought on by prolonged school shutdowns in the country.
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PATNA: Barely 24 hours after the lynching of Kishanganj Town police station SHO Ashwini Kumar in a bordering West Bengal village, his septuagenarian mother Urmila Devi could not bear the shock and died on Sunday. The Kishanganj police team had raided the village to arrest the accused of a bike loot case.
Both Kumar and his mother were cremated together on the outskirts of their village Panchu Mandal Tola under Jankinagar police station area of Banmankhi in Purnia district. Kumar’s mother was suffering from several age-related ailments. His father had died around seven years ago, Kumar’s maternal uncle Subhash Singh told TOI over phone.
India News: Barely 24 hours after the lynching of Kishanganj Town police station SHO Ashwini Kumar in a West Bengal village, his septuagenarian mother Urmila Devi