Bhubaneswar, May 23 (IANS) In a major step towards the conservation of Odisha’s rich heritage and architectural legacy, the Odisha State Archaeology Department has signed non-financial Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with IIT Kharagpur and School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Bhopal, during a special event in Bhubaneswar. According to an official statement released on Friday, the collaboration aims to strengthen the conservation, documentation and development of Odisha’s historic monumen…
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Bhopal/Indore, May 14 (IANS) The Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court is likely to deliver its long-awaited verdict in the Bhojshala-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute on May 15.”Judgment in Bhojshala case will be delivered tomorrow by Hon’ble Indore High Court,” advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, who is representing a party in the case, wrote.The verdict is expected after a prolonged legal battle and an extensive scientific survey conducted by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which dre…
Indore, April 23 (IANS) The long-standing dispute over the Bhojshala-Kamal Maula complex in Dhar has taken a significant turn with the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordering the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to provide complete videography of its extensive survey to all parties involved.The directive, issued on Thursday during ongoing hearings by a bench of Justice Vijay Shukla and Justice Alok Awasthi, requires the ASI to make the footage available by April 27, ensuring transparency and equa…
Indore, April 2 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday fixed April 6 as the date to commence detailed regular hearings in the long-standing Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute in Dhar district. Due to paucity of time, as the division bench was scheduled to sit only till 1.30 p.m., the matter could not be taken up in detail on Thursday.A division bench comprising Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla and Justice Alok Awasthi passed the order, stating clearly, “We fix all the matters for …
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday disposed of a plea filed by the Maulana Kamaluddin Welfare Society in the ongoing Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute, expressing confidence that the Madhya Pradesh High Court will duly consider all objections, including those arising from videography conducted during the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) survey. A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi observed t…
Bhopal, Jan 18 (IANS) The long-standing dispute over the Bhojshala-Kamal Maula complex in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, has intensified as Basant Panchami coincides with Friday on January 23, 2026. In a fresh development, the Hindu Front for Justice has approached the Supreme Court with an urgent application seeking “exclusive” access for Hindus to perform “Goddess Saraswati Puja” throughout the day on January 23.The site, a protected monument under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), is c…
Chennai, Dec 22 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu unit of the BJP has issued a sharp criticism of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin over his recent speech in Tirunelveli on December 21, alleging that his remarks amounted to divisive rhetoric and an attempt to fuel separatist sentiment. According to the BJP, the Chief Minister’s statement that the Union Government was blocking research into Tamil antiquity and that Tamils would not be defeated in a “two-thousand-year-old fight” was an irresponsible assertion …