Ram temple construction moving at brisk pace, trust targets early 2024 opening

Ram temple construction moving at brisk pace, trust targets early 2024 opening

Construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya is being undertaken at a brisk pace, the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Trust said in its latest progress report. The ground floor of the garbha griha (sanctum sanctorum) will be finished by December 2023, the trust said last week. The remaining work will be done by December 2024. The temple … Read more

Kalyan Singh: Hindutva icon under whose watch Babri Masjid fell

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The defining moment in Kalyan Singh‘s life was the fall of Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992. Just hours after mobs of kar sevaks demolished it, Singh quit as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh owning moral responsibility. Not that he had any regrets over his “failure” to save the mosque which he had assured the … Read more

Gyanwapi mosque: Sunni Waqf Board to challenge Varanasi court order

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The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board said on Thursday that it would challenge in the high court the Varanasi court order on the disputed premises claimed both by the Kashi Vishwanath temple and the Gyanwapi mosque. The order, given by a senior division civil court, asked the state government to get the disputed premises … Read more

Two Ayodhya residents move HC challenging acquittals of Babri mosque demolition accused

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LUCKNOW: Two Ayodhya residents on Friday moved the Allahabad High Court challenging a special CBI court’s ruling that acquitted all 32 accused including BJP veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi the 1992 demolition of Babri mosque. Ayodhya residents Haji Mahboob and Haji Sayyad Akhlaq Ahmad filed the petition in the Lucknow bench of … Read more

No ‘Baggage of Babri Masjid’ in Ayodhya Mosque Complex: Trust

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Lucknow: The trust tasked with developing the mosque complex in Dhannipur in Ayodhya said it was seeking to make a “new beginning” which was free of the “baggage of the Babri Masjid”, with a contemporary design for the blueprint of the complex and a guiding idea of revisiting the ‘Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb’ (composite culture) and showcasing … Read more

Babri Masjid demolition: CBI court reserves judgment, accused fails to furnish witnesses in their defence

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New Delhi: The special CBI Court, Lucknow conducting the Babri Masjid demolition trial has finally reserved the judgment. The judgment was reserved on Tuesday after the accused submitted their written arguments in their defence. The Court had given time till Tuesday to the accused to furnish their written arguments. As mandated by the Supreme Court, … Read more

UP CM to be invited to lay foundation stone for public facilities on land for mosque in Ayodhya

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LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be invited to lay the foundation stone for various public facilities at a mosque to be built in Ayodhya‘s Dhannipur village by a trust formed by the state Sunni Central Waqf Board, one of its officebearers said on Saturday. “On the five-acre land in Dhannipur village, which … Read more

View: Ayodhya should pave the way for ‘Ayuddha’ — peace forever among communities

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‘Damnatio memoriae’ is a Latin phrase roughly meaning ‘erasing bad memory’. Although the phrase came into vogue much later, the practice dated back to the Greek and Roman periods in European history. Erection of statues, not of men of god or of wisdom, but of power, was a standard practice. Historians point out that, at … Read more

Will go for Ramlala’s darshan after Prime Minister Modi, others leave: Uma Bharti

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BHOPAL: Former Union minister Uma Bharti on Monday said she will go for darshan of Lord Ram in Ayodhya after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others leave the venue of the ground-breaking ceremony for Ram temple construction there, in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The 61-year-old senior BJP leader’s comments came a day after … Read more