Dhar (Madhya Pradesh), May 22 (IANS) Amid an extensive deployment of police and Central Reserve Police Force personnel, members of the Hindu community will assemble to perform the Mahaarti at the Bhojshala complex on Friday between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. As the event aimed to proceed peacefully, tensions lingered in the historic town following a recent Madhya Pradesh High Court decision that recognised the site as a temple dedicated to Goddess Saraswati. Organisers had earlier planned a “Shobha Yat…
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Dhar, May 21 (IANS) The administration in Dhar stepped up security on Thursday ahead of a major religious programme scheduled at the Bhojshala complex on Friday, conducting a flag march across sensitive areas and warning against attempts to disturb communal harmony. The heightened vigil comes after the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s May 15 order in the long-running Bhojshala-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute.The court declared that the disputed site is a temple of goddess Vagdevi (Sa…
Bhopal, May 20 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, on Wednesday announced the much-awaited transfer policy for the current year, and also hailed the High Court’s decision on Bhojshala.Continuing the approach from the previous year, all transfers will be carried out between June 1 and June 15. The window has been kept shorter this time for smoother implementation. Departments wishing to frame their own transfer policies can do so through the General A…
Bhopal/Dhar, May 17 (IANS) A historic transformation was seen at the medieval Bhojshala complex in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, on Sunday as hundreds of Hindu devotees gathered to initiate daily religious rituals. On Saturday, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) issued a formal order allowing the Hindu community to perform puja following the Madhya Pradesh High Court orders, which officially recognised the disputed Bhojshala Kamal Maula Mosque structure as an 11th-century Sanskrit learning centre …
Dhar (Madhya Pradesh), May 16 (IANS) Following the verdict of the Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, the historic Bhojshala complex in Dhar witnessed its first formal day of daily Hindu worship on Saturday. The court, in its ruling delivered on Friday, May 15, officially recognised the eleventh-century structure as a temple dedicated to Goddess Vagdevi Saraswati.This decision effectively ended a decades-old arrangement and triggered an atmosphere of immense jubilation among devotees …
Bhopal, May 15 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Friday welcomed the landmark verdict delivered by the Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court regarding the historic Bhojshala complex in Dhar.The Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court redefined the legal status of the Bhojshala complex by ruling that the site is a temple and that the Hindu community possesses an inherent right to worship there which was never lost to history.In a significant judgment delivered on F…
Bhopal/Indore, May 15 (IANS) The Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has redefined the legal status of the Bhojshala complex in Dhar by ruling that the site is a temple and that the Hindu community possesses an inherent right to worship there which was never lost to history.In a significant judgment delivered on Friday, the division bench of Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla and Justice Alok Awasthi set aside decades of administrative compromises surrounding the disputed site.The court observ…
Indore, May 15 (IANS) Hindu petitioners in the case regarding the Bhojshala and Kamal Maula Mosque complex in Dhar, on Friday asserted that the idol of Goddess Vagdevi (Sarawati) will be reinstalled at Bhojshala.The reaction came after the Madhya Pradesh High Court recognised the Bhojshala complex as a Hindu temple and the property of King Bhoj. It set aside the Archaeological Survey of India’s (ASI) previous order allowing Muslims to offer namaz there.Furthermore, the MP High Court has directed…
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…
Bhopal, May 14 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh continued to reel under severe heatwave conditions on Thursday, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) centre in Bhopal issuing a detailed weather bulletin highlighting a sharp rise in temperatures across several parts of the state.According to observations recorded on May 14, 2026, the state is witnessing extreme weather conditions marked by intense heatwaves, warm nights, and isolated incidents of rainfall, storms and hail.Khajuraho in Chhatarpur di…