Since the communal disturbances last month, Sambhal and its temple trouble have remained in the news. Still, the non-stop coverage of the Hanuman temple and the three idols is exceptional.
UP CM Yogi claims provocative statements made ‘during jumma namaaz’ creates tensions in Sambhal. SP MLA says not a “Hindu-Muslim” fight, but result of local administration’s actions.
District administration discovered the temple on Saturday during an inspection in connection with electricity theft. Temple reopened after 1978, Nagar Hindu Sabha patron had claimed.
In Episode 1571, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at what the CJI-led bench’s order says, and what it means for Gyanvapi, Sambhal and Ajmer Sharif cases.
Three-judge bench led by CJI hems in lower courts, restricts them from passing interim or final orders, or ordering surveys in disputes concerning places of worship.
‘Sambhal doesn’t have a perfect history, but it has a long history.’ And this Jama Masjid is no ordinary masjid. It’s one of the oldest surviving Mughal mosques in the country.
Responding to violent incidents, Rahul Gandhi has travelled to remote areas in the past 16 yrs, sometimes risking arrest. In the latest case, he was stopped from reaching Sambhal in UP.
If Muslims considered the destruction of temples bad, there should have been an elaborate and pervasive condemnation of it in their literary and oral traditions.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
It may be matter of theater and stories for western media. You can consider it as old heritage and history surfaced on top. It may not be a matter of concern for the writer if her idols were buried and temples were destroyed. The stones and remains are the witness of atrocities.
It may be matter of theater and stories for western media. You can consider it as old heritage and history surfaced on top. It may not be a matter of concern for the writer if her idols were buried and temples were destroyed. The stones and remains are the witness of atrocities.
Mosqueless India on the cards