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Shahi Imam of Delhi s Fatehpuri mosque, Dr Mufti Mohd Mukarram Ahmed, on Tuesday, urged Muslims to offer Eid prayers at home
Bengal Imams Association on Sunday urged Muslims not to hold Eid prayers in large groups in view of the spike in COVID-19 cases
New Delhi: Major Muslim organizations in the country have appealed to Muslims to celebrate Eid with great simplicity in view of the raging COVID-19 pandemic. They also asked them not to gather in large numbers on the auspicious day of Eid and follow the official guidelines.
Shahi Imam of Delhi s Fatehpuri mosque, Dr Mufti Mohd Mukarram Ahmed, on Tuesday, urged Muslims to offer Eid prayers at home. Shahi Imam also informed that Eid ul-Fitr would be celebrated on May 13-14.
KOLKATA: Three of the four people killed in CISF firing at Sitalkuchi in north Bengal’s Cooch Behar during polling on April 10 took bullets in the chest while the fourth suffered a head injury inflicted with a blunt object, according to preliminary post-mortem reports.
Sources quoted the autopsy report of Hamidul Haq, a 28-year-old mason accused of trying to snatch firearms from CISF personnel, as saying that he was shot from a distance of around 10 metres. No senior official would comment on the findings.
A special investigation team of the state CID is probing the case and the Calcutta HC has listed the matter for hearing on May 5. Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said a “fair probe” would “lay bare the conspiracy behind this genocide”. CM Mamata Banerjee said in her election rallies on Monday that “bullets needs to be avenged with ballots”.
UPDATED: January 17, 2021 09:53 IST
Shaky vote bank: File picture of Mamata Banerjee at an Id rally in Kolkata(Photo: Debajyoti Chakraborty/Getty Images)
It was the end of May 2019. The BJP s aggressive campaign against Mamata Banerjee s appeasement politics bore fruit as the Trinamool Congress (TMC) lost 12 seats in the parliamentary election to wind up with a reduced tally of just 22 of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. Hardly had the West Bengal chief minister got time to adjust to the new reality of the BJP becoming her chief challenger than a seemingly innocuous question at a post-results press conference on whether she ll attend Iftaar parties threw her into a temper. I appease Muslims, no? she said. I ll go there a hundred times. Je goru doodh dei tar lathi-o khete hoi (I am willing to be kicked by a cow that gives milk). Nothing, she made it clear, would stop her from changing her stance towards a community that had fetched her rich political dividend. Of