Overview

• Large crowds marked the close of Durga Puja with processions and idol immersions across Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya, continuing the farewell rituals into the following days.
• At Guwahati’s designated Brahmaputra ghats, authorities enforced a ban on loud music, limited each committee’s immersion team to six members and extended permissions into Friday with SDRF, NDRF and police on duty.
• In Sribhumi, 17 idols from Bangladesh’s Zakiganj and more than 58 from Assam were immersed in the Kushiyara River under BSF–BGB oversight, with police reporting a smooth process expected to finish by Saturday.
• Tripura police reported that about 18% of roughly 3,000 idols were immersed on Thursday, with most immersions scheduled over the next two to three days.
• Local context shaped observances: Nartiang’s temple upheld its syncretic banana-trunk immersion tradition, while tributes to the late singer Zubeen Garg and storm damage in Silchar tempered celebrations.