The Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya has been a bone of contention between the Muslim and Hindu communities, and a cause of clashes for more than 150 years now. It has been 23 years since ...

Swami Yashvir Maharaj led the purification ceremony, performing a havan and other rituals. (Image:Screengrab/PTI) A Shiv temple in Ludhawala, a predominantly Muslim locality in Muzaffarnagar under the ...

Saffron flags are flying in the majority Hindu town of Ayodhya as excited locals prepare to host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the inauguration of a new multimillion-dollar temple. But like ...

NEW DELHI – NEW DELHI (AP) — India's Supreme Court agreed Thursday to delay a verdict in a religious dispute over a holy site in Ayodhya that has shaken the core of modern India and led to repeated ...

The Babri Masjid, built in 1529, became the centre of a decades-long legal and political dispute. Key moments include the 1949 idol placement, 1986 lock removal, 1992 demolition, and 2010 High Court ...

No member of the Congress' first family has visited Ayodhya since the demolition of the Babri Masjid 24 years ago, in December 1992. Ayodhya: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday offered prayers at ...

An Indian high court has ordered opposition leader LK Advani to stand trial for his role in the demolition of a mosque that sparked religious riots. The court in Allahabad in northern Uttar Pradesh ...

Syed Ikhlaq Latifi, 80, stands on the roof of his home, from where he watched in horror as a mob of Hindu activists destroyed the Babri Masjid in 1992. (Furkan Latif Khan/NPR) At 80, Syed Ikhlaq ...

And, with all the noise around the temple issue in Ayodhya and elsewhere, it has opened our wounds again. Mohammed Azim, an auto-driver in Ayodhya, still recalls the frightening night of December 6, ...

India’s Supreme Court is preparing to hand down its final verdict on a decades-old flashpoint in Indian politics, which set off violent riots in 1992 and facilitated the rise of Hindu nationalists to ...

At 80, Syed Ikhlaq Latifi's face is lined and leathery, with a stark white beard. But he's still able to scramble up three flights of stairs to his roof to describe what he watched from there, in ...