West Bengal

ceremony · festival

Priests performing religious rituals on the auspicious occasion of Durga Puja. Devotees worshiping the Goddess Durga with great enthusiasm and excitement.

The alleged rape of a 70-year-old nun by dacoits at a school at Ranaghat in Nadia district of West Bengal on Saturday triggered protests and outrage across the State.

river · boats

Boat carrying passengers to Namkhana via Hotania-Doyania river in West Bengal.

festival · politics

Location of Kolkata International Film Festival decorated with movie hoardings displaying pictures of actors and small food stall for visitors.

boats · hills

Boat-making carpenters in West Bengal in the process of making a wooden passenger boat in West Bengal, for plying along the Bay of Bengal's waters and around the Sunderbans.

river

Rafting on Teesta river at Kalimpong is fast evolving as a popular adventure sport in West Bengal. Tourists wearing life jacket can be seen. Life jackets are must while going for river rafting. Indian tourists get ready for the rafting.

After the Ramnavmi incident in Raniganj, Bengal police announces emergency in the district to maintain peace in the area. Police examine the loss of property in Raniganj after the incident.

festival · river

Poor children standing in mud, holding up their hands as they ask for charity from Hindu pilgrims during the Gangasagar mela.

birds · wildlife

Black Bulbul, also known as the Himalayan Black Bulbul, is observed in the forests of Latpanchar, West Bengal. The bird displays its characteristic slate-grey plumage, shaggy black crest, and bright orange-red bill and feet.

festival · ceremony

The entrance area of the Gangasagar Mela 2024, one of India’s largest annual religious pilgrimages held on Sagar Island in West Bengal where the Ganges River meets the Bay of Bengal.

hills · ceremony

This footage beautifully captures the serene presence of Kalimpong’s prominent Buddhist monasteries, with a special focus on Zang Dhok Palri Phodang Monastery (Durpin Monastery), majestically situated atop Durpin Hill in West Bengal.

boats · river

A ferry carries passengers to Gangasagar Island via Hooghly river in West Bengal. Sagar Island is an island in the Ganges delta, lying on the Continental Shelf of Bay of Bengal about 100 km south of Kolkata.

politics

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is an Indian politician and was former member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India. He was the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011.

river · boats

Wooden boat sailing down the Hooghly river at sunset in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal. An oar-boat enters the frame from the right side and exits from the left.

Pearls and seashells have a hardness of around 2.5 to 4.0 on the Mohs hardness scale. As a result, almost any fine toothed saw blade will have the ability to cut this seashell, but breakage is a problem to be wary of.

In 1995 Christine and Jeremy Townend founded Kalimpong Animal Shelter, which was built on the outskirts of the town.

The cultivated area of the state is about 1.8 million ha, comprising 22% of the geographical area. The net irrigated area is about 0.16 million ha, constituting 9.3% of the cultivated area.

railway

A woman in Purulia, West Bengal, had an incredible escape by lying flat on railway tracks she had accidentally fallen onto as a 56-wagon goods train passed over her.

coastline

Bakkhali is a small stretch of land covered by mangroves and sand beach near the coastline of Sundarban. Bakkhali is seaside resort in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India.

river · festival

Hindu devotees from all over the world converge at Ganga Sagar in West Bengal. A Helicopter fly over the Ganga Sagar for the survillience of the mela.

festival · river

Gangasagar Mela is the largest fair celebrated in West Bengal, India. Makar Sankranti is celebrated in the last day of the Bengali month of Poush. In Bengal, this day is one of the most auspicious days of the year.

coastline

Locals living on the fishing villages near the Bakkhali beach look for wood from the forest to use to cook food. Bakkhali is a seaside resort in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India.

forest

India has traditionally been considered as heartland of macaques. It is distributed throughout the northern India upto some extent of central India, in a wide variety of habitat including tropical moist deciduous forest to subtropical pine…