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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Varanasi's seniormost judge is expected to decide today whether the court should continue hearing a case filed by five Hindu women seeking the right to worship inside the city's Gyanvapi mosque, ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court bench, which will hear the case relating to the Gyanvapi Mosque survey, has an interesting composition. Both the judges of the bench have had an association with a similar ...

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 ...