An aerial view of the Gyanvapi mosque, left, and the Kashi Viswanath temple on the banks of the river Ganges in Varanasi, India, Dec. 12, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh On February 1, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Sohan Lal Arya is in the fight of his life. The 72-year-old is one of dozens of activists in the Indian city of Varanasi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- As India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to open a controversial Hindu temple where a centuries-old mosque ...

The Kashi temple-Gyanvapi mosque revision petition is scheduled to be heard on October 3 at a Varanasi court. The trial of the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque dispute took place in the ...

A Hindu group secured a court order to perform prayers inside the premises of a centuries-old mosque in the Indian city of Varanasi on Thursday, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi consecrated a ...

In 1861, the British Raj had an epiphany. To better assert their control over the Indian population, they felt they needed to know more about the region’s history and culture. This, combined with the ...

NEW DELHI, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A powerful Hindu group said several mosques in India were built over demolished Hindu temples, apparently hardening its stance in a decades-long sectarian dispute just ...

An Indian court weighed in on one of the country's most sensitive religious disputes Wednesday by permitting Hindu worshippers to pray inside a mosque in the city of Varanasi. The Gyanvapi mosque is ...

UP Assembly Election 2027: Although the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls are due only in 2027, political experts suggest that the increasing number of temple-mosque disputes in the state and the resultant ...

IN A CRAMPED home down a narrow alley in Varanasi, a hard-line Hindu activist flaunts a piece of mosque booty. It is a brick from the 16th-century Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, in north India. “I got it on ...

LUCKNOW, India, Jan 31 (Reuters) - An Indian court on Wednesday ruled that Hindus can offer prayers in a 17th century mosque in the holy city of Varanasi, a lawyer for the Hindu petitioners said, days ...

NEW DELHI, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A powerful Hindu group said several mosques in India were built over demolished Hindu temples, apparently hardening its stance in a decades-long sectarian dispute just ...