With the Lord Ayyappa shrine opening for a day on Monday, the temple town has been virtually taken over by some 2,300 Kerala Police personnel after protests marred the last pilgrimage season.


Sabarimala becomes a police fortress


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The Odisha government on Sunday requested the Uttarakhand government to provide necessary support to the 42 Odia pilgrims stranded at Badrinath due to snowfall.


Provide support to stranded pilgrims: Odisha to Uttarakhand


Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Sunday said that no power in the world could stop the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya.


Nothing can stop Ram temple construction: Giriraj Singh


Using Artificial Intelligence, researchers at Oxford University have created psychologically realistic models of humans to test what causes religious conflict.


Scientists create AI agents to decode cause of religious conflict


Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti on Saturday said it cannot wait for courts to decide on the Ram temple in Ayodhya and that the Centre should enact a law to build it, it said in a statement.


Sant Samiti demands law for Ram temple construction


A helicopter ferrying pilgrims to Badrinath shrine in Uttarakhand was briefly trapped in bad weather on Saturday and made an emergency landing at Gauchar, officials said.


Chopper carrying pilgrims to Badrinath makes emergency landing


Thousands of supporters and followers of Maulana Sami ul-Haq, an Islamic cleric and former senator who was more widely known as the "Father of Taliban", flocked to attend his funeral in Pakistan on Saturday.


Thousands in Pakistan attend funeral of 'father of Taliban'


Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said he was "surprised" by the criminal defamation complaint against him for his alleged "scorpion" remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as it questioned an author's right to freedom of expression and hoped that the baseless case would be dismissed forthwith.


Criminal defamation case against me baseless, will be junked: Tharoor


The lawyer of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was acquitted of blasphemy charges after eight years on death row, left the country on Saturday, saying his life was under threat.


Asia Bibi's lawyer leaves Pakistan citing threats to life


Hundreds of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) supporters on Saturday staged a protest march here demanding justice for the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.


SAD stages march seeking justice for 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims


My own experience of Sabarimala causes me to rub my eyes with disbelief at the spectacle of what poet Niaz Haider called "badsoorat siyasat", not quite the same as ugly politics. I owe my visit to Sabarimala in 1982 entirely to Bob Murari, the distinguished IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre who, along with his brothers, undertook the pilgrimage annually to wash off his sins.


Sabarimala: BJP stirs religious cauldron while Congress stokes the fire (Comment)


Kerala's Sabarimala town where the famed Lord Ayyappa shrine is located came under complete police control on Saturday ahead of its day-long opening on November 5, a senior official said.


Sabarimala temple comes under total police control


A radical Islamist group on Saturday called off protests in Pakistan against the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, who had been charged with blasphemy.


Protests over Asia Bibi's acquittal called off


First Lady of South Korea, Kim Jung-sook, will be visiting the temple town of Ayodhya on November 6, a state government spokesman said on Friday.


First Lady of South Korea Kim Jung-sook in Ayodhya on Nov 6


The Supreme Court on Friday declined to interfere with the ordinance making triple talaq an offence, telling the petitioners to wait for the coming winter session of Parliament where it will come up for ratification.


SC declines to interfere with ordinance making triple talaq an offence


Building further pressure on the government, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Friday hinted at a fresh "mass agitation" akin to 1992 for constructing a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.


RSS hints at fresh 'mass agitation' for Ayodhya temple


Amnesty International (AI) on Friday urged the UN Human Rights Council to urge China to tell the truth over the mass internment of up to one million, predominantly Muslim people, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.


Amnesty: UNHRC must question China about Xinjiang camps


With the Sabarimala temple set to open for a day on Monday, the Congress on Friday accused the Kerala government of "creating trouble" over the temple issue.


Kerala government creating trouble over Sabarimala: Congress


The leader of the protests against the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, on blasphemy charges urged his followers on Friday to go on strike as negotiations with the Pakistan government to end the demonstrations failed.


Radicals call for strike to protest Asia Bibi's acquittal



RSS hints at another 'mass agitation' for Ram temple


Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked District Magistrates and police chiefs to ensure Diwali passes off peacefully without any untoward incident, an official said on Friday.

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