Category: India

Supreme Court gives disputed Ayodhya religious site to Hindus in landmark ruling

NEW DELHI/AYODHYA, India – India’s Supreme Court on Saturday awarded a bitterly disputed religious site to Hindus, dealing a defeat to Muslims who also claim the land that has sparked some of the bloodiest riots in the history of independent India. The ruling in the dispute between Hindu […]

PM congratulates Mauritius PM Pravind Jugnauth on electoral victory

open view news desk The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has congratulated Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on his electoral victory. “Congratulations Pravind Jugnauth on your electoral victory. We have worked closely together to strengthen fraternal relations and development partnership between India and Mauritius. I look forward to speaking with […]

Ayodhya: Temple at disputed site, alternative land for mosque, says SC

New Delhi, Nov 9: The Supreme Court on Saturday cleared the way for the construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site at Ayodhya, and directed the Centre to allot a 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a mosque In one of the most […]

World’s worst air: India’s pollution crisis in perspective

Wildfires have raged across California for about a month and air problems persist in China, but no other place on Earth is battling the scale and severity of the pollution that chokes large swathes of north India. (Click tmsnrt.rs/34BzfaO for an animated world map showing the amount of PM 2.5 […]

Ayodhya verdict: Restrictions imposed in entire J-K

Srinagar/Jammu, Nov 9: Restrictions were imposed in entire Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday as a precautionary measure in the wake of the Supreme Court judgment in the Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case, officials said. Restrictions under section 144 of the CrPC came into force in the newly-created union […]

Supreme Court to rule on Hindu-Muslim dispute over Ayodhya site

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court is due to rule on Saturday on the ownership of a centuries-old religious site claimed by both majority Hindus and Muslims, a dispute that has cast a shadow of suspicion over the two communities for decades. Thousands of paramilitary force members and […]

Mothers-to-be fear for their unborn in smog-choked Delhi

Heavily pregnant Rachel Gokavi spends most days shut away in her New Delhi home, desperate to shield her unborn child from the toxic air blamed for soaring miscarriage rates and infant deaths. At a recent pre-natal class in the Indian capital, Gokavi and other expectant mothers shared their […]

The Indian Children who take a train to collect water

As their classmates set off to play after school each day, nine-year-old Sakshi Garud and her neighbour Siddharth Dhage, 10, are among a small group of children who take a 14 km (9 miles) return train journey from their village in India to fetch water. Their families are […]

40,000 doctors boycott work in Maharashtra

Mumbai, Jun 17: More than 40,000 doctors in Maharashtra are boycotting work on Monday as part of a strike call given by their apex body IMA in support of their agitating colleagues in West Bengal, an official said. Doctors, from various government and private hospitals in the state, are […]

Modi proclaims a cleaner India, but the reality may be more murky

KOPPAL/SHIKRAWA, India – Every morning around dawn, dozens of people gather by the dusty banks of a stream snaking through Shikrawa village, two hours south of India’s capital, New Delhi, to do the same thing: defecate in the open. “There are close to 1,600 houses in Shikrawa. And […]

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