In his address on the occasion of the bhoomi pujan at the soon-to-be-built Ram temple in Ayodhya, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, made an important point. The edifice, Mr Modi said, must ...

One of my earliest memories of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement dates back to a few months before the general election of 1989 that led to the defeat of Rajiv Gandhi. In the months preceding the election,...

Left out of Wednesday’s event where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, the spearhead of the temple movement L.K. Advani issued a statement o...

Turkey’s decision to reconvert the majestic Hagia Sophia monument in Istanbul into a mosque has led to near-universal dismay. Hagia Sophia, built as a church by the Byzantines, converted into a ...

The Nirmohi Akhara, whose plea for maintenance and management rights to the erstwhile disputed site in Ayodhya has been scrapped by the Supreme Court, has demanded the exclusive right to conduct puja ...

The Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha on Monday petitioned the Supreme Court against its award of a five-acre plot, somewhere in Ayodhya, to the All India Sunni Wakf Board to build a mosque as an alternati...

The Supreme Court’s Ayodhya judgment followed the logic of the original Ram Janmabhoomi campaigners down to the letter: the award of the entire site to the infant Ram and the Hindus who claimed it a...

“If you had to choose one event that has changed India, what would it be?” our deputy editor, Deepayan Chatterjee, asked one evening in The Telegraph newsroom.“The Babri Masjid demolition,” I ...

On a day the Supreme Court cleared all the roadblocks in the path of a “grand Ram temple”, L.K. Advani, who had spearheaded the Ram rath yatra that led to the demolition of the Babri mosque in 199...

Ayodhya stirred to life on Saturday with Fajar ki Azaan in the masjids at 5am and the ringing of bells in the temples at 5.50am.Then silence descended and stayed put — until 11.11am as most people o...