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TopicDurga Puja

Topic: Durga Puja

Nitish Kumar, the ‘lonely goalkeeper’ of Bihar, and why car makers should be thanking Covid

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

All Durga Puja pandals in West Bengal to be no-entry zones, orders Calcutta High Court

For small pandals, barricades will have to be put up five metres from the entrance, while for bigger ones, the distance has to be 10 metres, the court said.

Man ‘disrupting’ Durga Puja festivities in viral video is not Muslim. Incident from 2019

Video was posted by one Ashish Singh and is a year old. Singh said he had created the video with his friends 'in a casual manner'.

Stop outraging over ‘migrant’ Durga idol. Hinduism in Bengal doesn’t need rescuing

Before you tweet your outrage, educate yourself about Bengali culture first. Pallab Bhaumik’s depiction of goddess Durga as a migrant worker symbolises the spirit of women.

The painting that inspired artist Pallab Bhaumik’s ‘migrant’ Durga idol

The idol depicting goddess Durga as a migrant worker will be installed at Kolkata Barisha Club pandal during the upcoming Durga Puja festival.

PIL filed in Calcutta HC for stay on holding community Durga Puja to prevent Covid surge

The petition stated that the state govt be prohibited from disbursing grants to community Durga Puja and direction to provide the same to CM's State Emergency Relief Fund.

PM Modi’s virtual address on Durga Shasthi to kick-start BJP’s poll battle for Bengal

Modi will address Bengal on 22 October to ‘counter CM Mamata Banerjee’s lies’ about central govt and BJP, said party leaders. BJP also plans a PM rally after Durga Puja.

DDMA withdraws restriction on large gatherings for upcoming festivals until 31 October

According to fresh guidelines, the concerned DMs and DCPs will appoint a nodal officer for each site and venue of Ramleela and Puja pandals.

BJP’s big Bengal plan for October — Amit Shah puja visit, women’s defence training, protests

BJP will train its women workers in self-defence ‘against TMC goons’, conduct marches with youth and farmers, and woo Bengal voters in Durga Puja pandals.

Mamata sings iconic Jago Durga song on Mahalaya, listeners leave ‘give us jobs’ comments

Bengal CM posts video of song on Facebook, where the youth urge her for jobs. TMC says state has limited power, but opposition says Modi & Mamata suffer from 'Ostrich syndrome'.

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Why SIR is an exclusionary exercise for Persons with Disabilities

In the ongoing SIR 2.0 exercise, nearly half of the 90 lakh registered PwD voters in India were affected, showed an RTI application.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.