Jagaddhatri Puja, Chhath Puja and more Kolkata news in pictures

Jagaddhatri Puja at Swami Vivekananda’s ancestral home on Simla Street, north Kolkata. Bhuvaneswari Devi, mother of Swami Vivekananda, performed the first Jagaddhatri Puja at this house in 1901

Devotees attend Navami ‘aarti’ for Jagaddhatri Puja at Bagbazar United Club in north Kolkata on Sunday

Art lovers visit Paschimbanga Charukala Utsav 2024 at the Academy of Fine Arts on November 9. The exhibition will be on till November 11

Artist Chandrima Roy is hosting an exhibition of her paintings at Taj Bengal till November 11

An exhibition titled ‘Brilliance beyond Borders - Our Triumphs, Trials, Travails and Trends at the Science Nobels’ and a popular talk on ‘The Robust Inherent Health: Impact of Nutrition & Lifestyle’ by Asim K. Duttaroy, group leader, clinical nutrition, faculty of medicine, University of Oslo, and member, Nobel Prize Committee for Physiology or Medicine, were inaugurated at the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum on November 9

Devotees celebrate Chhath Puja through morning prayers and smearing of vermilion at Panchasayar Lake in south Kolkata on November 8 morning

Lights on display for Jagaddhatri Puja in Chandannagore

Guests take part in Christmas cake-mixing at Holiday Inn Kolkata on November 6

The keel-laying ceremony for two Next-Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels (NGOPVs) was held on November 5 in the presence of governor CV Ananda Bose. The NGOPVs are a series of 11 offshore patrol vessels to be built by Goa Shipyard (GSL) and Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) for the Indian Navy

Soon after Diwali and Kali Puja, a blanket of smog engulfed the Kolkata skyline on November 4. The AQI recorded on Sunday was 142