'The mosque will not be named Babri Masjid. It will not be named after any king or emperor. My personal opinion is that it should be called the Dhannipur Masjid,' says Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation Athar Hussain
Others who were present at the stage with the Ram temple trust head were Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Anandiben Patel and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.
In an interview to a television channel, Adityanath said he couldn’t go for the mosque inauguration in Ayodhya 'as a yogi and as a Hindu'.
External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava also asked Pakistan to desist from interfering in India’s affairs.
In an ambivalent reaction to the laying of the foundation stone for the Ram temple, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Lord Ram is the ultimate embodiment of supreme human values and can never appear in cruelty, hatred or injustice.
Sakshi Maharaj, BJP MP from Unnao, who played a key role in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, tells Outlook how he feels about not being invited to Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan.
Zafaryab Jilani also said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading religious proceedings in his official capacity at Ayodhya was against the spirit of the Constitution.
Both the events -- Article 370 abrogation and Ram Janmabhoomi -- are landmark events for BJP that will rewrite the history of the country. The date marks the victory of the BJP ideology, says a party general secretary.
For the Muslims in the Congress, the prevailing fervor over the Ram Mandir forces them into quiet submission and acceptance of the now cemented claim of the Hindu majority to Ayodhya.
In a tweet in Hindi, Gandhi said, 'Maryada Purshottam Lord Ram is the ultimate embodiment of supreme human values. He is the core of humanism embedded deep in our hearts'.
Despite efforts to eradicate Lord Ram's existence, he lives in our hearts and is the basis of our culture, PM Modi said after Ram Temple Bhoomi Pujan in Ayodhya.
PM Modi laid the foundation stone for the Ram temple during the Bhoomi Pujan, and took part in pooja and darshan of 'Bhagwan Shree Ramlala Virajman'.
A group of nine archaeologists had excavated the Ram Janmabhoomi for five years in 1970s to discover ample evidence of a Ram temple below Babri Mosque in Ayodhya
Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan at Ayodhya: AIADMK reminds its rival DMK what Karunanidhi had said about Ram
The ceremony by Modi for the temple's construction, in the presence of leading lights of Hindutva movement including RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, will be conducted today at 12:40 pm.
BJP veteran L K Advani said that he is humbled that in Ram Janmabhoomi movement, destiny made him perform "pivotal duty in the form of Ram Rath Yatra in 1990."
Welcoming the upcoming construction of a Ram temple, Nath said its foundation had been led by prime minister (late) Rajiv Gandhi 'who had opened the Ram Janmabhoomi temple site in 1985'.
To be built in the ‘Nagara’ style of temple architecture – one of three styles used for temple construction in the country – the Ram Mandir with three-storeys will be 161 feet tall.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.