
New Delhi: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has apparently not complied with the directives of Central Information Commission (CIC) to make public its detailed report on the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya. Chief Information Commissioner Satyananda Mishra had directed the ASI to either disclose its report of the disputed site or in case, the disclosure has been prohibited by the Allahabad High Court through its order, the copy...

11:17 AM, Apr 08, 2012

New Delhi: Expelled BJP leader Uma Bharti on Monday demanded building a country-wide consensus for construction of a magnificent temple at Ayodhya in wake of the Supreme Court order and said the matter should be settled outside court. "From the beginning, we have been demanding that a consensus be built across the country for a magnificent temple in Ayodhya. There is no clash of faith in Ayodhya. There should not...

07:54 PM, May 09, 2011

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi along with Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and 18 others in the Babri Masjid demolition case. The notice was issued on a CBI petition seeking prosecution of 21 BJP and saffron leaders on the charges of criminal conspiracy to demolish the Babri Masjid. The CBI had moved the...

12:42 PM, Mar 04, 2011

New Delhi: A large number of police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in the twin cities of Ayodhya, Faizabad and other parts of Uttar Pradesh ahead of Monday's 18th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. Security has also been tightened in other states as Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat. In Bhubaneswar, Maoists have called for December 6 to be observed as Black Day. They are demanding...

09:34 AM, Dec 06, 2010

New Delhi: After days of deliberations the Congress finally explained its position on the Ayodhya dispute after the Allahabad High Court verdict. The party says it will support reconciliation but will not initiate it. And keeping in mind its minority vote bank, the party also added that the demolition of the Babri Masjid cannot be condoned and that the guilty must be punished. This on a day when the Sunni...

08:15 PM, Oct 05, 2010

Lucknow: Anju Gupta, a senior police officer and key witness in the Babri Mosque demolition case, on Thursday refuted the defence contention that Pakistan's intelligence agency was involved in pulling down the 16th century mosque. During her cross-examination, Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Gupta maintained before the special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Rae Bareli that the mosque was under greater threat from Hindu karsewaks than Pakistan's Inter-Services...

08:20 PM, Apr 29, 2010

New Delhi: A key witness to the Babri Masjid demolition case, IPS officer Anju Gupta, on Friday deposed about BJP leader L K Advani and other Sangh Parivaar leaders presence at Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 when the mosque was brought down by Hindutva supporters. Appearing before a CBI special court in Rae Bareli, Gupta stuck to her stand that Advani had addressed Sangh activists from a spot barely...

06:35 PM, Mar 25, 2010

She also warned that the report had the potential to whip up communal frenzy. ...

06:38 PM, Dec 08, 2009

He refused to be drawn into the matter of Vajpayee's indictment by Liberhan. ...

12:29 PM, Dec 08, 2009

Rajnath says the report is a political document of character assassinations. ...

01:05 AM, Dec 08, 2009

New Delhi: The Babri Masjid’s demolition was the result of “public anger” and the Justice M S Liberhan Commission’s report on the incident is a “bundle of errors”, said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh in the Lok Sabha on Monday. Singh said in the Lok Sabha that the Liberhan Commission report, which has indicted several BJP leaders, was "a bundle of grave errors" and its intent appeared to...

05:43 PM, Dec 07, 2009

The BJP leader says the report has the most elementary errors in it. ...

08:25 AM, Dec 06, 2009

Few BJP leaders, including Advani indicted by the report on the Babri case. ...

06:45 PM, Dec 03, 2009

"We will inquire into it when I will go back," Singh said in the US. ...

02:39 AM, Nov 26, 2009