Gérôme’s lavish Orientalist paintings became wildly popular, his depictions not only of resplendent courts, harems, and mosques but “snapshot” compositions of everyday interiors and ...

Amid escalating tensions over a decades-old mosque on Uttarkashi, the Uttarakhand government has said it had not granted permission for a mahapanchayat that Hindu outfits had planned on December 1 to ...

The claim was similar to those made in the case of Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi and Eidgah Masjid Mathura in Uttar Pradesh and Kamal-Maula Masjid in Dhar in Madhya Pradesh. Mr. Jain is the ...

Hindu activist groups, mostly linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party, have claimed that several mosques in India were built over Hindu temples centuries ago during the Muslim ...

Tension had been brewing in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal since November 19, when the Mughal-era mosque Jama Masjid was first surveyed on the court's orders following a petition claiming that a Harihar ...

The court order came at 2.38 pm (on 24th Nov), and then we reached the mosque at around 5-5.30 pm. A copy of the Advocate Commissioner order was received and signed by him...Zafar sahib said he ...

After Ayodhya’s Babri Masjid, Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque and Mathura’s Shahi Idgah, is this the start of yet another prolonged mosque-temple dispute in Uttar Pradesh? News18 gets the side of the Hindu ...

The filmmaker divides the story into chapters and each has a title shown against the background of a famous Orientalist painting about a conflict in the Middle East. Another intriguing film that ...

Over 30 years since the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, another mosque in Uttar Pradesh finds itself at the epicentre of a contentious debate. A court-ordered survey of the 16th-century ...

Violence erupted when a mob gathered outside the mosque, throwing stones and firing at police. The survey was ordered following claims that the mosque was built on the site of a former temple.