Karwa Chauth 2024 highlights: Women break fast after moon sighting, Bollywood celebrates the festival of love

Karwa Chauth moon time live: A woman looks at the moon through a sieve as part of a ritual to break her fast during Karwa Chauth festival in Jammu.

Karwa Chauth 2024: Hindu women across the nation observed the Nirjala fast and celebrated the sacred festival of Karwa Chauth on Sunday, October 20. On this day, women abstain from eating or drinking until moonrise, offering prayers for the long lives of their husbands. • Pictures are coming in from all over India as women get their hands decorated with henna, buy beautiful new clothes, sieves, bangles, all for the festival.

•Celebrities such as Katrina Kaif, Kiara Advani, Rakul Preet Singh, Parineeti Chopra, Priyanka Chopra are also expected to observe the fast and share pictures with their husbands in the evening after the moon-sighting.

•On Karwa Chauth, married women follow the 'nirjala' fast without food and water, and the Moon plays an extremely important role in fasting. Women can break their fast after the sighting of the 'Moon'.

•After watching the Moon from a sieve, fasting women offer Arghaya to the Moon and break the fast by eating a morsel of food and a sip of water from their husband's hands.