STORY: Sohan Lal Arya is in the fight of his life. The 72-year-old is one of dozens of activists in the Indian city of Varanasi who want to turn its oldest mosque into a Hindu temple. Arya has been ...

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. On February 1, Hindus offered prayers at a sealed ...

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 ...

An Indian court weighed in on one of the country's most sensitive religious disputes Wednesday by permitting Hindu worshippers to pray inside a mosque in the city of Varanasi. The Gyanvapi mosque is ...

NEW DELHI, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A powerful Hindu group said several mosques in India were built over demolished Hindu temples, apparently hardening its stance in a decades-long sectarian dispute just ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Thousands of Hindus have been flocking to the site of India's 17th century Gyanvapi mosque where Hindu priests have been allowed to say prayers from a cellar in the latest ...

In 1861, the British Raj had an epiphany. To better assert their control over the Indian population, they felt they needed to ...

Ratan Lal, a history professor with Delhi University's Hindu College who was arrested last night over a social media post that appeared to question claims of a 'Shivling' found inside Varanasi's ...

The court heard a petition which seeks a scientific survey by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) of the ablution area ...