How a drowned village in India reappears each summer, to be flooded by visitors and litter. A new tour could change that

Houses in ruins, a washed-out temple, cracked earth surrounding puddles of water and a deafening silence welcome summer visitors to Kurdi in Goa, western India. Submerged for most of the year, the remnants of the once thriving village, also known as Curdi, re-emerge from receding reservoir waters during the hot summer months to remind visitors … Read more

SC to hear on April 1 Gyanvapi committee’s plea against allowing puja in cellar

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on April 1 a Gyanvapi mosque management committee’s plea against an Allahabad High Court decision upholding a lower court’s order allowing Hindu prayers in the southern cellar of the mosque. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra will hear … Read more

Madhya Pradesh High Court orders ASI survey of Dhar temple-mosque area

New Delhi: The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to carry out within six weeks a “scientific survey” of the Bhojshala complex in Dhar district, a medieval-era structure which both Hindus and Muslims claim as their own. Hindus consider Bhojshala, an ASI-protected 11th century monument, to be a … Read more

“ASI report on Gyanvapi is no conclusive evidence,” says All India Muslim Personal Law Board

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has refuted claims that the report of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which conducted a scientific survey of the contentious Gyanvapi mosque premises in Varanasi and submitted the survey report in the district court earlier, found evidence of a Hindu temple there. In a press statement, … Read more

Varanasi Court to present ASI scientific report today

Varanasi: The Varanasi district Court will present the Archaeological Survey of India’s (ASI) scientific report on the Gyanvapi mosque survey today. In the Gyanvapi Shringar Gauri case, today the Hindu side will present its objection in the court on the application of Anjuman Arrangements Masjid Committee’s plea asking the judge to present the ASI report … Read more