A retired army officer on Tuesday filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court to quash the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, which mandates that the character of a place of public wors...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday asked people here to seek an answer from Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav for the firing on kar sevaks' during his party's government in the past an...

Security has been tightened in Mathura to avoid any untoward incident ahead of December 6, the date on which the Babri mosque was demolished in Ayodhya in 1992, officials said on Saturday. Four right...

A lucky mascot deserves ardent dedication. So the Bharatiya Janata Party’s plans for Ayodhya are bigger than those for any other city so far. According to the prime minister at a recent review o...

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Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said on Monday that the state government would conduct an inquiry into the allegation that the trust set up to monitor the construction of the ...

This is a sensitive time. A notice issued by the Supreme Court to the Centre regarding a petition questioning the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 may send confusing signals. Renewed d...

Asking for contributions to build a temple is not prohibited. The response to the request depends on personal choice and faith. But when the president of a secular country donates over five lakh rupee...

Laws are the product of a society’s understanding of justice; it may not feel that the deliverers of justice require laws defining ethical principles. Recently, a two-judge bench of the Andhra P...