Pandals in a sentence

Tall idols are a part of the celebrations in street pandals and the work on themed idols commences almost a year in advance.

There was less space for the devotees in the three pandals built in three lakh square feet.

At Chetla Agrani, in Kolkata, one of the Durga puja pandals stood out with a nostalgic and creative theme focused on letterboxes.

The Chief Minister offered ‘pushpanjali’ at some pandals.

This year, the city police have given permission to nearly 3,600 Ganesh pandals.

All pandals will be tagged as 'no-entry' zones.

For the first time in over four decades, no pandals or makeshift tents were erected at public places to display the Ganesha idols in the city.

The Karnataka government on Tuesday allowed all public installations or pandals for the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in a restricted manner.

The order maintains that pandals will have to erect barricades — 5 metres ahead of entry for smaller ones; and 10 metres for larger ones.

Launching investigation into the cases, commissionerate police have started inspecting the footages captured by surveillance cameras installed at puja pandals under their respective areas.

The four thematic pandals from Bhubaneswar which are being showcased on MyJio include the Rasulgarh, Nayapalli, Saheed Nagar and Jharpada.

The nation is immersed in the fervour of Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations and to offer her prayers to the gigantic Ganesh idol at one of Mumbai's prime pandals, Swara made a visit but had to return barefoot.

The party would set up tea stalls outside some of the major puja pandals and distribute the beverage for free as part of its public connect programme – ‘Chai pe Charcha’, Basu added.

There will be separate pandals and priests for conducting thilaholamm and the Sree Narayana Gurudeva Manidiram committee will distribute 10,000 tree saplings on the occasion.

Environmentalist Subhash Dutta blamed pandals and Durga puja decorations for preventing flow of water to trees among various reasons for weakening of their roots.

Electrically-lit pandals called thoranas are erected in locations mainly in Colombo, Kandy, Galle and elsewhere, most sponsored by donors, religious societies and welfare groups.

Pandals are erected in various cities, towns and villages throughout West Bengal.

The whole city of Kolkata undergoes a transformation during Durga Puja, as it is decked up in lighting decorations and thousands of colourful pandals are set up where effigies of goddess Durga and her four children are worshipped and displayed.