NEW DELHI: While putting a freeze on the spate of lawsuits for reclamation of temples allegedly converted to mosques during the Mughal era while it hears the validity of the Places of Worship Act, 1991, Supreme Court said on Thursday, “The primary issue which arises for consideration is Sections 3 and 4 of the 1991…
NEW DELHI: Tensions within Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) continue to simmer, with Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Aaditya Thackeray hitting out at the Maharashtra unit of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and its chief, Abu Azmi, for the intention to withdraw from the alliance over “Hindutva credentials.”“Our Hindutva is about ‘hriday mein Ram aur haath ko kaam’ (Ram…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party leader Fakhrul Hasan Chaand distanced the national leadership from Maharashtra SP chief Abu Asim Azmi’s remarks hours after Azmi announced the party’s intention to sever ties with the MVA, citing an advertisement and social media posts by Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders celebrating Babri mosque’s demolition.Highlighting that the final decision rests with…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party to quit opposition MVA over Shiv Sena (UBT)’s stand on Babri mosque demolition, Maharashtra SP chief Abu Azmi said on Saturday, according to news agency PTI.“An advertisement was given by Shiv Sena (UBT) in a newspaper congratulating those who demolished Babri masjid. His (Uddhav Thackeray) aide has also posted on X…
EX-SC judge RF Nariman (File photo from SC website) NEW DELHI: Former Supreme Court judge and noted jurist Justice R F Nariman has expressed disappointment over the top court’s verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case and said it did not do justice to the principle of secularism. He also said the Places of Worship…
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Sunday shared his personal experience dealing with the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute and said that he prayed to God for a solution. During a felicitation ceremony in his native village of Kanhersar, CJI revealed that he had sought divine intervention to find a resolution to the…
NEW DELHI: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday strongly criticized the recent revisions made by NCERT in their textbooks regarding the terms “Ayodhya” and “Babri Masjid.”Owaisi said that children “should not grow up glorifying criminal acts”.In a post on X, Owaisi expressed his disapproval, stating, “The NCERT has decided to replace Babri Masjid with the…
NEW DELHI: Political scientists Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar wrote to NCERT on Monday objecting to the inclusion of their names in new textbooks after they had requested removal of their names as authors from the revised versions. They warned legal action if these books were not immediately withdrawn.Yadav and Palshikar said they did not…
Holy men on a mission to civil servants who defied their superiors, here are some of the protagonists of Ram Janmabhoomi movementRaghubar DasThe Nirmohi Akhara mahant moved a local court in 1885 for permission to build a ‘mandap’ for Ram’s worship on the ‘chabutra’, or platform, in front of Babri Masjid. After his plea was…
