Muharram 2017

Muharram or Yaum-e-Ashura was observed with solemnity and sombreness in the country today. Muharram marks the holy day of Ashura. Imam Hussain Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad was killed on this day.

"Slit my throat but no one tells me what to do," a defiant Mamata Banerjee declared today after a court said her government in Bengal cannot ban the immersion of Durga idols on Muharram and cancelled the unusual restrictions that she had ordered on grounds that there could be trouble. "You are exercising extreme power without any basis," the Calcut...

Questioning the West Bengal government's curbs on Durga idol immersion, the Calcutta High Court today said the state cannot hinder a citizen's right to practice religion on the basis of a mere assumption of law and order disruption and must provide sound reasons for doing so.

In a more charged re-run of last year, the immersion of idols of Goddess Durga - West Bengal's chief deity - and the observance of Muharram - the day of sorrow in the Islamic faith - are set on course for a head-on collision.

Muharram or Yaum-e-Ashura was observed with solemnity and sombreness in the country today. Muharram marks the holy day of Ashura. Imam Hussain Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad was killed on this day.

"Slit my throat but no one tells me what to do," a defiant Mamata Banerjee declared today after a court said her government in Bengal cannot ban the immersion of Durga idols on Muharram and cancelled the unusual restrictions that she had ordered on grounds that there could be trouble. "You are exercising extreme power without any basis," the Calcut...

Questioning the West Bengal government's curbs on Durga idol immersion, the Calcutta High Court today said the state cannot hinder a citizen's right to practice religion on the basis of a mere assumption of law and order disruption and must provide sound reasons for doing so.

In a more charged re-run of last year, the immersion of idols of Goddess Durga - West Bengal's chief deity - and the observance of Muharram - the day of sorrow in the Islamic faith - are set on course for a head-on collision.