STORY: Sohan Lal Arya is in the fight of his life. The 72-year-old is one of dozens of activists in the Indian city of Varanasi who want to turn its oldest mosque into a Hindu temple. Arya has been ...

VARANASI, India — On a recent Friday afternoon in this holy city in northern India, scooters, pedestrians and cycle rickshaws jostled for space on a street leading to the city's most famous Hindu ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LUCKNOW, India (AP) — An Indian court on ...

An aerial view of the Gyanvapi mosque, left, and the Kashi Viswanath temple on the banks of the river Ganges in Varanasi, India, Dec. 12, 2021. On February 1, Hindus offered prayers at a sealed ...

A Hindu group secured a court order to perform prayers inside the premises of a centuries-old mosque in the Indian city of Varanasi on Thursday, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi consecrated a ...

The Varanasi district court on Monday dismissed a petition by the Hindu side to change the cloth tied on the lock of the wazoo khana — a pool used by Muslims in the past for ritualistic washing before ...

Both faith communities have long shared this sacred city. But some Hindus have taken legal action over a mosque they claim holds idols of Hindu... A Hindu-Muslim dispute tests centuries of interfaith ...

An aerial view shows Gyanvapi mosque, left, and Kashiviswanath temple on the banks of the river Ganges in Varanasi, India, Dec. 12, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh An Indian court on ...