Late on Saturday evening, local authorities instructed multiple prominent Durga Puja committees in Kolkata to temporarily shut down public access to their pandals. This directive came just hours following a severe crowd crush at a different festival venue that resulted in eighteen fatalities and twenty-five injuries, according to an official statement.Among the high-profile celebrations directed to halt visitors' entry were prominent crowd-drawers such as 'Tala Pratyay', 'Alipore Sarbojanin', 'C...
