5-day Durga Puja concludes with immersion of idols | News Flash

DHAKA, Oct 02, 2025 (BSS) - The five-day Sharadiya Durga Puja, the largest religious festival of the Hindu community, concluded today with the immersion of Goddess Durga's idols across the country, marked by deep devotion, vibrant rituals and solemn religious fervor. On Bijoya Dashami, the final day of the festival, colorful processions carrying idols were brought out from temples and puja mandaps. Devotees chanted mantras, beat traditional drums (dhak-dhol), blew conch shells and performed uludhoni (ceremonial ululation) before immersing the idols in nearby rivers, ponds or other water bodies. Earlier in the day, married Hindu women, dressed in traditional white sarees with red borders, participated in Sindur Khela - a symbolic ritual where women offered vermillion and sweets to the...