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.
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, ...
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 29 (ANI): 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(NOTE: This was originally published in the India Today issue dated April 7, 2025) SHAHI JAMA MASJID | Sambhal The row: The 16th-century mosque in UP (pictured above) is embroiled in a legal dispute ...
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 ...