VARANASI, India — On a sweltering Friday afternoon last week, outside an imposing sandstone gate leading to the Gyanvapi mosque, the road teemed with dozens of policemen, some armed with tear gas.

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 ...

VARANASI, India — On a recent Friday afternoon in this holy city in northern India, scooters, pedestrians and cycle rickshaws jostled for space on a street leading to the city's most famous Hindu ...

VARANASI, (IANS) – The court-appointed Commission to conduct videographic survey of the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi Mosque complex on May 19 submitted, to the court, its report which said the ...

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, ...

Justice Prakash Padia also extended till November 30 the interim stay on a Varanasi court order directing the ASI to conduct a survey at the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque complex and further ...

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 ...

Gyanvapi Mosque Case: The application was moved in May this year by four women worshippers. The Varanasi District Court today allowed a "scientific survey" of the entire Gyanvapi mosque premises by ...

The Varanasi district court on Monday rejected a plea seeking the replacement of a piece of cloth tied over the sealed lock of the wuzukhana inside the Gyanvapi mosque complex here. The counsel for ...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — An Indian court on Thursday ruled that officials can conduct a scientific survey to determine if a 17th-century mosque in the country’s north was built over a Hindu temple. The ...

KK Muhammed, the former regional director of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), has said that Muslims should willingly hand over Mathura and Gyanvapi to Hindus as the Ram Janmabhoomi matter is ...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) —The dispute over land ownership had been one of India’s most heated issues between India’s 80% majority Hindu community and Muslim minority. LUCKNOW, India (AP) — An Indian court ...