Last Sunday, the forest department put up several banners in Santiniketan's Sonajhuri forest, informing people that playing with colours and large crowds would not be allowed in the forest area to ...

Picture by Amarnath Dutta The Sonajhuri forest in Santiniketan on Friday witnessed a subdued celebration of Basanta Utsav apparently because of a campaign to ban playing with colours in the greenery.

The forest department has banned playing of Holi within Sonajhuri Haat area in Santiniketan, this year. The Visva-Bharati University (VBU) has already announced that this year it will not organise ...

Banners placed in and around the Khoai Sonajhuri forest area featuring the West Bengal government logo mention that playing with colours, filming videos or parking vehicles in the reserved forest ...

A Visva Bharati official, requesting anonymity, said, “Even before the UNESCO recognition came, the university has been trying to protect the Sonajhuri forest and the campus by trying to keep ...

Citing possible damage to the greeneries in the forest belt, the West Bengal government on Thursday imposed a ban on celebrations at the popular Sonajhuri Haat in Birbhum district's Santiniketan ...

Bengal imposes ban on Holi celebrations in Santiniketan's Sonajhuri Haat to protect green cover in forest The Sonajhuri Haat is located near Visva Bharati's Santiniketan campus, a UNESCO heritage ...