AYODHYA, India — About 80 chartered flights have landed at the new international airport in India’s holy city of Ayodhya for Monday’s partial opening of a controversial temple dedicated to one of Hinduism’s most revered deities, Lord Ram.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a controversial Hindu temple in Ayodhya on Monday. The temple is built on the ruins of a historic mosque and is dedicated to Hinduism's Lord Ram. Millions of Hindus, supported by Modi's party and other Hindu ...

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 a Hindu nationalist state. On Monday, a new Hindu ...

ABU DHABI, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened a grand Hindu temple in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, capping off a two-day visit to the Muslim nation that is home to around 3.5 million Indians. A day earlier, tens of ...

A stampede at a temple in southern India’s Andhra Pradesh state has killed at least nine people and injured others, according to officials. The incident took place as worshippers crowded into the Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple in Kasibuga to observe a Hindu religious ceremony on Saturday.

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