Durga Comment

"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...

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is "Indira Gandhi and Goddess Durga" in a Congress poster that has sprung up after BJP lawmaker Vinay Katiyar's widely criticized comment about "prettier campaigners" in his party.

CPM General Secretary Sitaram Yechury has moved a privilege motion against Union Education Minister Smriti Irani for making "baseless allegations" against him. He also said that he has been getting threatening calls and obscene messages after Ms Irani's speech in the upper house on February 26.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury today claimed to have received threat calls and text messages for allegedly saying "wrong" things about Goddess Durga in the Rajya Sabha.

Education Minister Smriti Irani's controversial reference to goddess Durga and demon Mahishasur were expunged from the Rajya Sabha records today following instructions of Chairman M Hamid Ansari, an official statement said.

Sparring over Union Minister Smriti Irani's controversial comments on Goddess Durga and Mahishasura - the demon killed by the deity - took up much of the debate today in Parliament on JNU students accused of sedition.

A well-known Dalit scholar, Kamal Bharti, was arrested in Akhilesh Yadav's Uttar Pradesh today. He had posted a comment on Facebook criticising IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal's suspension.

"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...

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is "Indira Gandhi and Goddess Durga" in a Congress poster that has sprung up after BJP lawmaker Vinay Katiyar's widely criticized comment about "prettier campaigners" in his party.

CPM General Secretary Sitaram Yechury has moved a privilege motion against Union Education Minister Smriti Irani for making "baseless allegations" against him. He also said that he has been getting threatening calls and obscene messages after Ms Irani's speech in the upper house on February 26.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury today claimed to have received threat calls and text messages for allegedly saying "wrong" things about Goddess Durga in the Rajya Sabha.

Education Minister Smriti Irani's controversial reference to goddess Durga and demon Mahishasur were expunged from the Rajya Sabha records today following instructions of Chairman M Hamid Ansari, an official statement said.

Sparring over Union Minister Smriti Irani's controversial comments on Goddess Durga and Mahishasura - the demon killed by the deity - took up much of the debate today in Parliament on JNU students accused of sedition.

A well-known Dalit scholar, Kamal Bharti, was arrested in Akhilesh Yadav's Uttar Pradesh today. He had posted a comment on Facebook criticising IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal's suspension.