Ayodhya verdict: Muslim law board to file review plea, won’t accept five-acre plot elsewhere

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s lawyer and secretary said the board had decided there could not be any alternative to the mosque.

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· Nov 17, 2019 · 04:19 pm

Asaduddin Owaisi is ‘turning into a second Zakir Naik’, says Babul Supriyo

The Union minister lashed out at the parliamentarian from Hyderabad for his comments about the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya judgement.

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· Nov 16, 2019 · 09:04 pm

Babri Masjid revisited: No, we cannot just decide that it’s done and dusted and move on

We must not fall into the trap of disaggregating harms and gains by religious identity.

Kalpana Kannabiran

· Nov 15, 2019 · 06:30 am

What explains the silence among Muslim communities on the Ayodhya judgment?

Except for a brief moment in the 1980s, Babri did not figure in Muslim political mobilisations, social scientists say.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Nov 14, 2019 · 09:00 am

Ayodhya verdict: Bangladesh media reports claiming Modi congratulated SC judges are fake, says India

A letter being circulated in Bangladesh claimed that the prime minister said the Ayodhya verdict was a ‘stupendous contribution to Hindu Rashtra’.

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· Nov 13, 2019 · 10:37 pm

Ayodhya verdict: Hindu Mahasabha says all cases lodged against kar sevaks should be withdrawn

The group also demanded that those who participated in the Ayodhya movement be declared as religious fighters.

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· Nov 13, 2019 · 10:45 am

How the Supreme Court failed to lift the veil on the parties behind Ram Lalla

While deciding that the deity’s suit was not time-barred, the court disregarded the political motivations of those who had filed it.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Nov 12, 2019 · 06:55 pm

Ayodhya: Muslim personal board will decide on review of SC verdict on November 17

Meanwhile, former chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities Wajahat Habibullah called the Supreme Court judgement ‘deeply flawed’.

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· Nov 11, 2019 · 06:37 pm

No, the Supreme Court did not uphold the claim that Babri Masjid was built by demolishing a temple

The Archaeological Survey of India’s report on the site did not provide evidence for this, the judges concluded.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Nov 11, 2019 · 03:12 pm

Ayodhya case: NSA Ajit Doval meets Hindu and Muslim leaders after Supreme Court verdict

In a joint statement, the attendees pledged full-fledged support to the government to maintain peace and order.

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· Nov 11, 2019 · 11:50 am

Supreme Court rejected division of Ayodhya site – but based its decision on such divisions

Had the question of possession been tested on a composite site, would the Hindu side have succeeded?

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Nov 11, 2019 · 06:30 am

Ayodhya: India dismisses Pakistan’s comments on SC verdict as ‘unwarranted’

The MEA said Islamabad’s pathological compulsion to comment on India’s internal affairs with the ‘obvious intent of spreading hatred’ is condemnable.

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· Nov 10, 2019 · 05:04 pm