Alwar Temple

The Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday stayed the arrest of Noida-based journalist Aman Chopra who was booked by the state police over a TV debate on the demolition of a temple by civic authorities in Alwar district.

Three FIRs have been registered against Mr Chopra, including in Bundi, Alwar and Dungarpur districts under various sections pertaining to sedition, outraging religious sentiments, promoting enmity between two groups, and under the IT Act on April 23.

Singing bhajans (devotional songs), BJP workers on Saturday staged a sit-in protest outside the 300-year-old Shiva temple that was demolished with bulldozers in Rajasthan's Alwar district last week, to clear the way for a road.

At a time bulldozers allegedly targeting a section of people in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Delhi are at the core of a huge political controversy, demolitions in Rajasthan have triggered tit-for-tat allegations.

A Dalit man was allegedly forced to rub his nose on a platform inside a temple in Rajasthan's Alwar after he made derogatory remarks about Hindu deities in an exchange on social media on the controversial film 'The Kashmir Files', police said.

A BJP lawmaker has called out the Shiv Sena on its efforts to highlight the BJP's failure to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya. Uddhav Thackeray, who is currently in Ayodhya to lead a rally, has been relentless in his criticism of the BJP. In Ayodhya today, he has demanded a date for temple construction, warning that the BJP-led government will not be...

The Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday stayed the arrest of Noida-based journalist Aman Chopra who was booked by the state police over a TV debate on the demolition of a temple by civic authorities in Alwar district.

Three FIRs have been registered against Mr Chopra, including in Bundi, Alwar and Dungarpur districts under various sections pertaining to sedition, outraging religious sentiments, promoting enmity between two groups, and under the IT Act on April 23.

Singing bhajans (devotional songs), BJP workers on Saturday staged a sit-in protest outside the 300-year-old Shiva temple that was demolished with bulldozers in Rajasthan's Alwar district last week, to clear the way for a road.

At a time bulldozers allegedly targeting a section of people in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Delhi are at the core of a huge political controversy, demolitions in Rajasthan have triggered tit-for-tat allegations.

A Dalit man was allegedly forced to rub his nose on a platform inside a temple in Rajasthan's Alwar after he made derogatory remarks about Hindu deities in an exchange on social media on the controversial film 'The Kashmir Files', police said.

A BJP lawmaker has called out the Shiv Sena on its efforts to highlight the BJP's failure to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya. Uddhav Thackeray, who is currently in Ayodhya to lead a rally, has been relentless in his criticism of the BJP. In Ayodhya today, he has demanded a date for temple construction, warning that the BJP-led government will not be...