The Gyanvapi case has stirred controversy with many likening it to the Ayodhya case and the Babri-Ram Janmbhoomi dispute. However, this is the not first petition to make it to courts this year in which petitioners have sought probes into the origins of mosques in the name of protecting Indian and Hindu heritage.
He also said that the Shiv Sena does not mean Mumbai, Maharashtra or Hindutva, and added that nobody can separate Mumbai from the state, but he wants to free the city from "corruption and misdeeds".
From British rule to the democratic system of governance at present, the 152-year-old draconian sedition law remains a preferred weapon in the hands of the authorities to suppress dissent.
The incident happened on Wednesday night at Saroornagar when the victim, B Nagaraju, a Dalit was travelling on a motorbike with his wife and was confronted by his attackers. They pushed Nagaraju to the ground and beat him up indiscriminately with the rod and stabbed him to death.
On Monday, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said the BJP should ask its leaders about Sena's role in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, hitting back at BJP's Devendra Fadnavis for his comment that there was no Sena leader when the Babri structure in Ayodhya was brought down.
The Congress said it cannot evade responsibility for the crumbling law-and-order situation in Punjab and asked why its national convener Arvind Kejriwal was shying away from appealing for peace, attacking AAP over the Patiala clashes.
Directed by Arindam Chakraborty, 'Ashare Goppo' stars actors Rudranil Ghosh, Abir Chatterjee and Payel Sarkar and is a comedy film which has been stuck for a release date for eight years.
Gurmukhi now dominates Punjab’s public spaces. Does this demonstrate an assertion of a regional identity shaped by Partition, reorganisation and insurgency?
Despite several agitations by political parties—some violent—the Marathi language is on a downslide. It will take more than government efforts to promote the language
The idea that Hindi is spoken by a majority of Indians is a claim that has to be ferociously contested. Only 26 per cent of the Indian population selected Hindi as their mother tongue.
During the 16th and 17th century, 'Mahaprabhu' Chaitanya's followers tried to replace fish in their diet with daal, a vegetarian source of protein. Eventually, lentil soup with fish heads became one of Bengal's most popular dishes
In the wake of a political row in Maharashtra over the recitation of Hanuman Chalisa, the Shiv Sena on Monday hit out at the BJP and said the Hindutva ideology is a culture and not chaos.
The ruling party denied the allegations and said their government doesn't have any intention of politicising education, calling the question paper based on historic facts
MLA Ravi Rana and his wife MP Navneet Rana on Saturday gave up their plan of reciting Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra Chief Minster Uddhav Thackeray's residence amid stiff resistance by the ruling Shiv Sena workers.
Shiv Sena workers broke through the barricades and tried to enter the premises of the Khar residence of Maharashtra MLA Ravi Rana and his wife MP Navneet Rana who had earlier announced to recite Hanuman Chalisa outside CM Uddhav Thackeray's house.
Kaushik’s active association with the Congress party began in 1989 with Seva Dal, right before the Mandal agitation, which he calls a turning point for the party.
The foot-soldiers of Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV), an organisation founded by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, had intensified efforts to ensure that 'Maharaj ji' gets the second term as chief minister.
If BJP’s IT Cell is fuelled by polarising religious content and Hindutva push, the AAP uses anti-corruption campaigns and populist issues to gain followers on social media.
