India has 29 states with at least 720 districts comprising of approximately 6 lakh villages, and over 8200 cities and towns. Indian postal department has allotted a unique postal code of pin code ...

The excavation includes an area under tension due to past claims about the mosque's history. Excavation begins near Sambhal's Shahi Jama Masjid well ASP Shreesh Chandra said, “Legal action will ...

An RTI activist has filed a petition claiming that Aligarh's Jama Masjid ... mosque was constructed on public land without approval. The case is scheduled for hearing on February 15. NEW DELHI ...

New Delhi: Ordering a status quo, the Supreme Court on Friday asked the Uttar Pradesh authorities, the Archaeological Survey of India and others not to take steps over a “private well” near the Mughal ...

Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain on Friday said that the Sambhal Mosque Committee had approached the Supreme Court seeking to ...

No, you (State) cannot do that,' bench says when shown a poster put up by district administration declaring the site as being part of a Hindu temple and calling for a 'puja' there.

The plea claimed that posters were put up around Sambhal and near the Shahi Jama Masjid, indicating purportedly the location of historical wells and therein the mosque has been shown as a temple.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Friday that any disputed structure should not be called a mosque.

The Supreme Court on Friday directed the district magistrate to maintain status quo on reviving or allowing prayers at a ...

The local court allowed an application seeking appointment of an Advocate Commissioner to survey the Shahi Jama Masjid. The mosque committee said the plea was allowed without hearing it on the ...

This new imagination of Hindu heritage seems to constitute an interesting political perspective, which is going to determine ...

Photograph: ANI Photo Considering a plea of the Sambhal Shahi Jama Masjid ... India (ASI), Sambhal district magistrate and other private Hindu side litigants led by Hari Shankar Jain. The mosque ...