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GOD S COUNTRY: Devotees at the Kumbh Mela on Maha Shivratri, March 11 (Prakash Singh/AFP)
When the Narendra Modi-led Union government announced the nationwide lockdown last year, the number of Covid cases in the country stood at 618. Exactly a year later, even while the country had 3 million active cases and the total tally had crossed 11 million, India was preparing for the Kumbh Mela, one of the largest religious congregations in the world, scheduled to begin from April 1.
While experts across the country cautioned against holding the event, the administration turned a deaf ear to those appeals. At the event itself, even while state government advertisements paid lip-service to Covid protocols, it was clear to all but the most credulous that it wouldn’t be possible to observe the protocol at this mela of millions. Tirath Singh Rawat, chief minister of Uttarakhand, declared: “Faith will overcome the fear of Covid-19.” Pity it couldn’t stave
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Staff at the Ghazipur crematorium in Delhi cart in fresh logs as
funeral pyres burn all around them (Rajk Raj/ Getty Images)
The second wave of Covid-19 is still cresting but by now we have all been touched by its terrors, and all too many of us by its sorrows and the dismal realisation that we are in the midst of a recurring nightmare, a tragedy foretold. Here, we expose the sorry tale of neglect, apathy and failure of our political leadership. The institutional collapse and bureaucratic cowardice that facilitated super-spreader religious festivals and the political carnival of an eight-phase election campaign even as the second wave of a pandemic was breaking. The narcissism that enabled our leadership to ignore the warnings of expert groups. Their inability to form bipartisan alliances between the Centre and the states in the middle of a national calamity. Now that some of the loudest voices in the land have gone quiet, t
COVID-19: Delhi HC Allows 50 People to Offers Prayers at Nizamuddin Markaz During Ramzan
The court refused to increase the number of people or allow use of other floors of the mosque for offering prayers.
Health workers prepare to sanitise an area near Nizamuddin mosque on April 1, 2020. Photo: PTI/File
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New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Thursday, April 15, allowed 50 people to offer namaz five times a day at the Nizamuddin Markaz mosque during Ramzan.
Justice Prathiba M. Singh directed the Station House Officer of Nizamuddin police station to permit entry of 50 people five times a day to offer namaz only on the first floor of the Masjid Bangley Wali.
COVID-19: Bombay HC Rejects Juma Masjid Plea to Allow Devotees to Offer Namaz During Ramzan
The trust said that the mosque could accommodate 7,000 people at a time but pleaded that in the light of the health crisis, only 50 people be allowed inside.
Bombay High Court. Photo: Flickr
Religion14/Apr/2021
New Delhi: In light of a surge in COVID-19 numbers, the Bombay high court on Wednesday, April 14, rejected the Juma Masjid Trust’s plea to allow 50 devotees to offer prayers at a time during the ongoing holy month of Ramzan, the
A bench of justices R.D. Dhanuka and V.G. Bisht was hearing a petition by the trust which cited that devotees be allowed inside âin exercise of right to freedom of religionâ. The trust said that the mosque could accommodate as many as 7,000 people at a time but pleaded that in the light of the health crisis, only 50 people be allowed inside to offer
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