Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath with members of the Assembly and Legislative Council at Ayodhya’s Ram Janmabhoomi Temple, in Ayodhya on February 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) from all political parties in Uttar Pradesh except the Samajwadi Party (SP) on Sunday visited the Ram Temple in Ayodhya to offer … Read more
A road leading to the Gyanvapi Mosque barricaded amid ‘Varanasi Bandh’ called by the Muslim community, in Varanasi, on February 2, 2024 | Photo Credit: PTI The Allahabad High Court on February 2 did not give any immediate relief to the Gyanvapi Masjid committee which had challenged the order of the Varanasi court allowing Hindu … Read more
File picture of the Gyanvapi Mosque complex as seen from the Kashi Vishwanath Temple | Photo Credit: PTI The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Gyanvapi mosque committee to approach the Allahabad High Court against a Varanasi district court’s order that a Hindu priest can perform prayers before idols in a cellar of the mosque. … Read more
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath on Wednesday visited the temple town of Ayodhya to inspect the ongoing construction work of the Ram Temple in the city. During his visit to the town, he also prayed at the Hanumangarhi and Ram Temple. Notably, the construction of the temple is in the final stages. Prime Minister … Read more
No congregational prayers have been allowed for six consecutive Fridays at Srinagar’s historic Jamia Masjid over apprehensions of protests in reaction to the situation in Gaza, with the mosque’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq under house arrest. A spokesman for the Anjuman Auqaf, the mosque’s caretaker body, said the grand mosque was being targeted and … Read more
Dehradun: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi organised a ‘bhandara‘ in Kedarnath and served food to devotees on Monday, the second day of his three-day “personal” visit to the Himalayan temple. The Congress leader visited the grand statue of Adi Shankaracharya near the Kedarnath temple and offered prayers there in the morning. Later in the day, he … Read more
Preachers in Kashmir Valley have accused the J&K Waqf Board of disallowing any mention of Palestine, which has been witnessing a fierce conflict for the past 24 days, in sermons or duas (special prayers), in an apparent bid to contain any street protests against Israel. Several preachers, who presided over the religious rites, during the … Read more