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Mumbai riots: Former tourist taxi driver’s 31-year fight to prove his innocence
On June 18, a sessions court acquitted Rajesh Jaiswal in a case linked to the 1992-93 communal riots in the city, sparked by the demolition of the Babri Masjid
Updated on Jul 03, 2024 09:00 AM IST
Megha Sood
65-year-old wanted in Mumbai riots case arrested after 31 years on the run
Sayyad Nadir Shah Abbas Sayyad, who was on the run for over 31 years, was arrested when he went to meet his ailing mother, said the police. A resident of Ismail building in Sewri, Sayyad had been arrested soon after the riots on charges including attempt to murder, unlawful assembly and rioting
Updated on Jul 03, 2024 07:10 AM IST
Vinay Dalvi
Evening brief: NCERT chief responds to tweak in textbooks; respite from heat
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Updated on Jun 16, 2024 06:33 PM IST
The jolt that UP gave to the BJP
Mandal 2.0 and anger over jobs cost the party seats, scuttling its hopes of a simple majority
Published on Jun 07, 2024 09:27 PM IST
HT Editorial
Himanta Biswa Sarma's vote appeal: 'Ensure Babri Masjid never rebuilt'
Himanta Biswa Sarma said his party will not stop at the construction of the Ram Temple.
Updated on May 10, 2024 09:57 AM IST
NCERT syllabus: Mentions of Babri, Gujarat riots, Hindutva clipped
NCERT drops references to sensitive topics like Babri Masjid, Gujarat riots, and minorities in Class 12 political science textbook.
Updated on Apr 05, 2024 09:01 AM IST
Vrinda Tulsian, New Delhi
Asaduddin Owaisi dares 'secular' Congress, NCP on Babri: 'Say the name'
Owaisi said the "real face" of parties like the Congress and the NCP came to the fore when they made Uddhav Thackeray the chief minister of Maharashtra.
Published on Feb 20, 2024 06:02 AM IST
Group clashes with FTII students over banners decrying Babri Masjid demolition
According to officials, a group of people barged into the FTII campus on Tuesday at around 1.30 pm and engaged in a physical altercation with the students who had put up the banner
Updated on Jan 24, 2024 07:26 AM IST
Can a new multi-faith Ayodhya be made?
Ayodhya is fundamentally different from the Vatican. In a few years, Ayodhya will see temples and mosques standing together.
Published on Jan 22, 2024 04:21 PM IST
Keeping up with UP | No regret, says kar sevak involved in demolition of shrine
32 years after kar sevaks brought down the Babri Masjid, a new temple is set to come up. Read a first person account of the days before December 6, 1992
Updated on Jan 21, 2024 12:37 PM IST
Sunita Aron
‘Babri Masjid taken away from Indian Muslims systematically’: Owaisi
Asaduddin Owaisi asserted that the temple didn't exist during the formation of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP).
Updated on Jan 20, 2024 04:07 PM IST
'Ram Lalla idol doesn't look like a child': Digvijaya Singh courts new row
Digvijaya Singh said that the idol should be in the form of a child and in the lap of Mother Kaushalya, but the one being seated is not in the child form.
Published on Jan 19, 2024 11:52 AM IST
Don’t agree with building Ram Temple after razing mosque, says Udhayanidhi
The Supreme Court in 2019 ruled in favour of construction of the temple on the disputed site, after nearly three decades since the Babri demolition
Updated on Jan 21, 2024 09:46 PM IST
Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
'After demolishing mosque…': Udhayanidhi 'not in agreement' with Ram Mandir
The consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple will be held in Ayodhya on January 22.
Updated on Jan 18, 2024 04:43 PM IST
Voices from the Muslim community on the transformation of the temple town
"This is the region where Hindus and Muslims have fought together as a society in the 1857 First War of Independence. Communal amity is ingrained in our ethos"
Updated on Jan 12, 2024 09:45 PM IST
Sunita Aron
Navigating the fault line of Ram Mandir politics
The self-appointed guardians of secularism and those who claim to be protectors of Hindutva nationalism have fed off each other for decades
Published on Jan 11, 2024 09:54 PM IST
'Why didn't they withdraw all criminal cases?': Jagdish Shettar hits out at BJP
Amid a row over Shrikanth Pujari's arrest, Congress leader Jagadish Shettar said the BJP was raking up the issue to polarise voters ahead of the Lok Sabha poll.
Published on Jan 06, 2024 12:03 PM IST
ANI | | Posted by Yamini C S
BJP to hold stir over man’s arrest in 31-yr-old post-Babri riots case
The Karnataka unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday announced that it will stage a statewide protest on Wednesday, condemning the arrest of Hindutva activist Srikanth Poojari in connection with a rioting case dating back to December 1992, following the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya
Updated on Jan 03, 2024 07:14 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Bengaluru
As opening of Ram temple in Ayodhya nears, mosque construction yet to begin
The Indo Islamic Cultural Foundation said it does not have the money even to pay the project's “development charges”.
Published on Oct 05, 2023 01:15 PM IST
PTI |
Keeping up with UP | The denouement of a mass movement
The Ram temple, to be constructed within the year, comes at the end of a chequered history that witnessed heightened religious sentiments and communal riots
Published on Jul 19, 2023 06:14 PM IST
Sunita Aron
"When Babri Masjid was demolished..," Owaisi hits out at Congress in Karnataka
“When Babri Masjid was demolished, they made a resolution of rebuilding a mosque there. What became of that?" asked Owaisi.
Published on May 03, 2023 08:15 AM IST
ANI | | Posted by Pathi Venkata Thadhagath
Review: A Man from Motihari byAbdullah Khan
The author’s second novel combines fantasy and plain prose to deliver a compelling narrative of new India from a middle class Muslim man’s perspective
Updated on Apr 21, 2023 05:56 PM IST
Uttaran Das Gupta
Remarks on Sena’s role in Babri Masjid demolition leave Patil isolated in BJP
Two leaders of the BJP in Maharashtra have distanced themselves from the state's higher education minister Chandrakant Patil's comments that Shiv Sena workers were not present during the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar called it Patil's opinion, adding that the BJP did not want to indulge in a credit race regarding the Ram Janmabhumi movement. Patil's comments were called an insult to Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray and he later retracted his statement.
Updated on Apr 13, 2023 01:02 AM IST
Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
He said, they said…Babri dominates Maha discourse again
Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray’s claim of being the Hinduhriday Samrat date back to that defining day of December 6, 1992.
Updated on Apr 12, 2023 12:39 AM IST
Maha minister clarifies over ‘no Sena member was near Babri Masjid’ remark
While issuing the clarification, BJP's Chandrakant Patil revealed that CM Shinde had called him on Tuesday morning and asked him to clarify his statements.
Published on Apr 11, 2023 05:26 PM IST
PTI | HT News Desk
Rescued by Sena: The Maha party’s affinity for Savarkar
BJP’s love for Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is well known. What accounts for Shiv Sena’s?
Published on Apr 05, 2023 04:10 PM IST
22 held in Mathura amid calls on reciting Hanuman Chalisa at Krishna birthplace
Security was heightened in UP's Mathura amid the calls.
Published on Dec 06, 2022 01:53 PM IST
New concerns shroud Ayodhya as it marks 30 years of Babri Masjid demolition
It was only in late 2019 that the Supreme Court finally ensured closure in the dispute, ruling in favour of a temple at the site, but also that the demolition of the mosque was a crime , and asking that land for a new mosque be provided elsewhere in Ayodhya.
Updated on Dec 06, 2022 08:45 AM IST
Pawan Dixit, Lucknow
Distantly Close | The way forward with the Islamic world lies in the past
Institutional memories don’t change with the change of governments. It’ll be useful to recall and learn from what followed the razing down of the Babri mosque over three decades ago.
Published on Jun 09, 2022 12:47 PM IST
Vinod Sharma
Sec 144 imposed in Mathura after Mahasabha threat to install idol in mosque
The clampdown comes even as another right wing organisation, the Narayani Sena, has said it will take out a march from Vishram Ghat to Sri Krishna Janmasthan, demanding the "removal" of the mosque.
Published on Nov 28, 2021 08:39 PM IST
PTI | , Mathura, Uttar Pradesh