New Delhi — Hundreds of millions of Hindus celebrated the opening of a grand new temple in the northern India city of Ayodhya on Monday, but the decision by India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister ...

Uttar Pradesh is fast emerging as India's spiritual capital—a place where myth, history and pilgrimage infrastructure converge. The moment offers us a chance to see more clearly how corridors and ...

AYODHYA, India — More than 30 years ago, rioters destroyed a historic mosque in this holy Hindu city — a seismic event that critics say continues to help transform India from a secular democracy into ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid a foundation stone for the construction of a Hindu temple at a holy site that’s been at the center of the country’s most politically and culturally ...

In a ceremony in Ayodhya, a past flash point for sectarian violence, India’s prime minister offers his Hindu nationalist base a clear symbol of ascendancy. By Jeffrey Gettleman and Hari Kumar NEW ...

AYODHYA, India — With priests chanting and blowing conch shells, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the consecration of a controversial Hindu temple in this north Indian town on Monday. The ...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath highlights Ayodhya's transformation into a global spiritual tourism hub after ...

Millions tuned in across India to watch the opening of a vast Hindu temple on Monday, in a ceremony considered to be the crowning moment for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist ambitions ...

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NEW DELHI, June 4 (Reuters) - India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party conceded defeat on Tuesday in a constituency where the inauguration of a grand Hindu temple just months ago by Prime Minister ...

AYODHYA (ANI) – The Deepotsav 2024 celebrations in Ayodhya set two Guinness World Records on October 30, marking an extraordinary chapter in the city’s history. In collaboration with the Uttar Pradesh ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will help consecrate the unfinished temple on Monday, on the site of a 16th century mosque destroyed in 1992. Critics... India's Modi to inaugurate Hindu temple in Ayodhya ...