India's supreme court has ruled that a Hindu temple can be built on the country's most hotly contested religious site, ending a legal dispute that has run for decades between Hindus and Muslims
A group of independent archaelogists and historians is to challenge a report by the archaeological survey of India that a Hindu temple existed at the holy city of Ayodhya beneath the ruins of a mosque destroyed in 1992.
Yesterday's blasts took place only hours after the publication of a long-awaited report on Ayodhya - the temple town in north India, which has long divided Hindus and Muslims.
A court in India yesterday ordered archaeologists to excavate the site of the demolished Ayodhya mosque to determine whether a Hindu temple ever existed there.
Thousands of Hindu monks tried to march on India's parliament in New Delhi yesterday, demanding the right to build a temple at Ayodhya on the site of a razed mosque.
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