Religious Structures

The Gujarat government on Friday informed the Supreme Court the land, where the alleged illegal demolitions of Muslim religious structures took place at Gir Somnath, will remain with it and not allotted to any third party.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will lay down pan-India guidelines on demolition of properties and any religious structure in the middle of a road, be it a 'dargah' or a temple, "has to go" because public interest is paramount.

Public safety is paramount and any religious structure encroaching upon a road, water bodies, or rail tracks must go, the Supreme Court said today.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday said the country is witnessing religious conversions in a structured manner that is opposite to our values and constitutional principles with a "sugar-coated philosophy" being sold.

An over 100-foot structure built for a religious and cultural event collapsed in Karnataka on Saturday, narrowly missing an electric pole as well as a crowd of devotees, who managed to get out of the way in the nick of time.

The Delhi High Court today sought the stand of the New Delhi Municipal Council and police on a petition by the Delhi Waqf Board anticipating the demolition of a 150-year-old mosque and asked the parties to carry out a joint inspection at the site.

In an early morning drive, two religious structures at Delhi's Bhajanpura Chowk area were demolished on Sunday.

Documents that NDTV accessed clearly show the temple area that collapsed was an illegal structure and the Indore Municipal Corporation had marked the cover of the stepwell for demolition last year.

Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Tuesday alleged that Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia is pretending to protect the unauthorised religious structures from demolition.

Lt Governor VK Saxena cleared the proposal to remove nine "unauthorised" religious structures along the upcoming Delhi-Saharanpur Expressway after the file approving their demolition was sent to him by the Delhi government.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday appealed to Lt Governor VK Saxena to stop the proposed demolition of 74 religious structures for infrastructure development projects in the capital.

Raj Thackeray today lauded the Yogi Adityanath government's decision to remove loudspeakers from religious structures, and took a dig at his cousin and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, saying the state unfortunately has "bhogis".

The BJP government in Karnataka this week passed a bill to protect religious structures in the state, hoping to mollify those who protested against the demolition of a temple in Mysuru district.

The Karnataka Assembly today passed the Karnataka Religious Structures (Protection) Bill, a day after introducing it. The bill was passed by voice vote tonight.

After protests from locals to save their temples from being included in the proposed IIT campus in North Goa, the state government has decided to exempt 45,000 square metres of land parcel from the project to separate the religious structures from the institute.

The Gujarat government on Friday informed the Supreme Court the land, where the alleged illegal demolitions of Muslim religious structures took place at Gir Somnath, will remain with it and not allotted to any third party.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will lay down pan-India guidelines on demolition of properties and any religious structure in the middle of a road, be it a 'dargah' or a temple, "has to go" because public interest is paramount.

Public safety is paramount and any religious structure encroaching upon a road, water bodies, or rail tracks must go, the Supreme Court said today.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday said the country is witnessing religious conversions in a structured manner that is opposite to our values and constitutional principles with a "sugar-coated philosophy" being sold.

An over 100-foot structure built for a religious and cultural event collapsed in Karnataka on Saturday, narrowly missing an electric pole as well as a crowd of devotees, who managed to get out of the way in the nick of time.

The Delhi High Court today sought the stand of the New Delhi Municipal Council and police on a petition by the Delhi Waqf Board anticipating the demolition of a 150-year-old mosque and asked the parties to carry out a joint inspection at the site.

In an early morning drive, two religious structures at Delhi's Bhajanpura Chowk area were demolished on Sunday.

Documents that NDTV accessed clearly show the temple area that collapsed was an illegal structure and the Indore Municipal Corporation had marked the cover of the stepwell for demolition last year.

Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Tuesday alleged that Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia is pretending to protect the unauthorised religious structures from demolition.

Lt Governor VK Saxena cleared the proposal to remove nine "unauthorised" religious structures along the upcoming Delhi-Saharanpur Expressway after the file approving their demolition was sent to him by the Delhi government.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday appealed to Lt Governor VK Saxena to stop the proposed demolition of 74 religious structures for infrastructure development projects in the capital.

Raj Thackeray today lauded the Yogi Adityanath government's decision to remove loudspeakers from religious structures, and took a dig at his cousin and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, saying the state unfortunately has "bhogis".

The BJP government in Karnataka this week passed a bill to protect religious structures in the state, hoping to mollify those who protested against the demolition of a temple in Mysuru district.

The Karnataka Assembly today passed the Karnataka Religious Structures (Protection) Bill, a day after introducing it. The bill was passed by voice vote tonight.

After protests from locals to save their temples from being included in the proposed IIT campus in North Goa, the state government has decided to exempt 45,000 square metres of land parcel from the project to separate the religious structures from the institute.