Efforts to explore an out-of-court settlement in three major religious site disputes in Uttar Pradesh have failed to gain traction, with parties in the Gyanvapi, Sri Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Eidgah ...

Varanasi: The Uttar Pradesh unit of Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) has demanded a ban on offering namaz at the Gyanvapi mosque complex during the Hindu month of Shravan, claiming it hurts the religious ...

The judge who ordered the videographic survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi in 2022 is now making headlines for ...

Lawyers familiar with the matter said on Wednesday (July 15, 2026) that the resolution of the Gyanvapi dispute is likely to take longer after both the Hindu and Muslim sides in Varanasi declined ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — For nearly three centuries, Muslims and Hindus in India's northern Varanasi city have prayed to their gods in a mosque and a temple that are separated by one wall. Many see it as an ...

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Both the Hindu and Muslim sides in the Gyanvapi mosque dispute in Varanasi, the Sri Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Eidgah land dispute in Mathura and the Jama Masjid dispute in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal have ...

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: Security was beefed up at the Gyanvapi mosque on Friday, day after an ASI survey report revealed that the existence of “a large Hindu temple” which existed at the site “prior to the ...

Varanasi: The Anjuman Intezamia Masajid (AIM), which manages the Gyanvapi mosque, has declined the Supreme Court’s proposal to explore an amicable settlement of the Gyanvapi dispute through mediation ...

Hindutva groups are laying claim to a growing number of sites where Muslim monuments and mosques stand, arguing that temples once stood on the same land. A poster of the Babri Masjid demolition.

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.