Friday, October 1, 2010

Mayawati tries to put Congress in line of fire

Mayawati tries to put Congress in line of fire

Mayawati tries to put Congress in line of fire

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:52 PM PDT

Sensing the Congress's discomfiture, its rivals like SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and UP chief minister Mayawati sought to stoke Muslim disenchantment.

Some Muslims open to moving mosque

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:45 PM PDT

A day after the Allahabad high court verdict on the Ayodhya title suit, a section of Muslims have started looking at the option of taking their mosque away from the Ram Janmabhoomi site.

Activists hope for out-of-court deal

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:39 PM PDT

Within hours of the Allahabad HC judgment, a group of Muslim activists and opinion-makers got together to explore if there were ways of settling the Ayodhya issue other than going to the Supreme Court in appeal.

Muslims have ruled, been ruled, & now share power: Justice Khan

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:27 PM PDT

"Muslims in India enjoy a unique position. They have been rulers here, they have been ruled and now they are sharers in power (of course, junior partners). They are not in majority but they are also not negligible minority," said Justice S U Khan.

Post-judgment, a chance for Hindus & Muslims to forge new ties

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:31 PM PDT

After a wait of 61 years, the learned judges presented a cocktail of belief, history and jurisprudence in the Babri Masjid title suit.

Verdict only a settlement, not judgment, says Urdu press

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:28 PM PDT

Urdu newspapers have called the Allahabad high court's Ayodhya verdict more a "settlement" than a judgment.

'No loopholes in ASI evidence'

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:23 PM PDT

Though criticized by a section of historians, the ASI's 2003 excavation report has been critical in allowing the Allahabad HC in reaching a verdict that years of negotiations and entrenched politiking had not yielded.

'There were enough artefacts to prove site a scared place'

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Artefacts found by archaeological excavations at the disputed site in Ayodhya proved that it had been a sacred place and not merely a human habitation, according to archaeologist R Nagaswamy.

A temple and a mosque in this Ajmer shrine

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:16 PM PDT

The seven-decade-old holy shrine of a Muslim Sufi saint Hazrat Sayed Baba Badam Shah at Ajmer houses a Hindu as well a Muslim place of worship.

A shop that sells the scent of faith

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:01 PM PDT

Barely 200 meters from the revered shrine of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer is a century-old shop named Lala Sitaram Ayodhya Prasad. The shop is run by a Hindu family and sells 'ittar' (scent) to devotees visiting the Sufi saint's shrine.

Puja & namaaz, part of this community

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 03:59 PM PDT

For the Cheetah-Mehrat community, the Ayodhya land dispute is a non-issue. An embodiment of the true spirit of the Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb, this community practises both Hinduism and Islam.

Lawyers term HC's Ayodhya ruling a perfect verdict

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 03:59 PM PDT

Senior counsel Ram Jethmalani, speaking to TOI from London, said, "Both, the people of India and the three judges, deserve to be congratulated."

In Ayodhya, it's a sad Friday for Muslims

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 03:46 PM PDT

Until Thursday, neither community in Ayodhya was particularly exercised over the veracity of the claim that Ram was born here. With the high court having decided to step in, however, the birthplace issue has become a polarizing one.

Nirmohi Akhara a strident Vaishnav sect

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 03:47 PM PDT

With its main seat in Ayodhya, the Nirmohi Akhara came into existence in 1720 to counter the influence of the Shaivaites.

The man who was Ram Lalla's 'next friend'

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 03:44 PM PDT

If the verdict in the Ayodhya title suit went in favour of Ram Lalla Virajmaan, part of the credit goes to Ram Lalla's 'sakha' (friend) Deoki Nandan Agarwal.
Posted by Harshad at 9:26 PM

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