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Gyanvapi Mosque Security Heightened Post ASI Report Release

Security measures have been beefed up outside the Gyanvapi mosque, a day after the ASI report on the Gyanvapi mosque complex revealed there "existed a large Hindu temple prior to the construction of the existing structure". Read further on Dynamite News:

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Gyanvapi-Kashi Vishwanath Temple: ASI survey report to be made public; both sides to receive hard copy

The Varanasi district Court on Wednesday asked that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) report be made public today and the hard copy be provided to both sides. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Gyanvapi mosque survey | Varanasi court allows both parties to have access to ASI report

A Varanasi district judge allowed all parties to get the certified copy of the report of Archaeological Survey of India survey done at the Gyanvapi mosque

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ASI assures to send note to UNESCO over inclusion of Srimukhalingam temple in Andhra Pradesh in world heritage structures’ list

Historic Srimukhalingam temple’s chief priest Naidugari Rajasekhar urged Archaeological Survey of India’s Director General Kishore Kumar Basa to use his good offices for the inclusion of the temple in the world heritage structures’ list of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to get special recognition and funds for…

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Cracks on beam of Shree Jagannath Temple’s Nata Mandap must be repaired on priority, Orissa High Court’s Amicus Curiae tells Archaeological Survey of India

Amicus Curiae N.K. Mohanty, appointed by the Orissa High Court, has found evidence of wear and tear in the structures of the Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri, an Archaeological Survey of India-protected monument. The structure dates back to the 12th Century.

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ASI begins survey of Gyanvapi mosque complex amid tight security

A team of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Friday morning arrived at the Gyanvapi mosque premises adjacent to Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi and started a scientific survey of the complex amid tight security. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Allahabad HC allows ASI to conduct survey of Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi

Allahabad High Court on Thursday allowed the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Gyanvapi Mosque Case: Caveat filed in Allahabad HC over direction for ASI survey by Varanasi court

A caveat petition in the Gyanvapi case was filed by Rakhi Singh, a petitioner from the Hindu side, in the Allahabad High Court on Monday, on the order of Varanasi Court directing a survey of the sealed area on the mosque complex by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Read…

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ASI Director-General visits Archaeological Museum in Ballari

Director-General of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), New Delhi, Kishor Basa visited the Robert Bruce Foote Sangankal Archaeological Museum in Ballari on Saturday and expressed his happiness over the systematic display of artefacts and quality information on pre-history provided here.

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Tamil inscriptions found in Tirupati reveal tax and land records from 11th century

cK. Muniratnam Reddy, director (epigraphy), Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), said he received the two inscriptions from K.S. Ramarao, RDO, Srikalahasthi, who sent them for epigraphy reading.

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Mehrauli demolition: Survey DDA relied on was found incomplete by HC panel last year

Before the demolition drive in south Delhi’s Mehrauli was halted by the Delhi High Court, anxious residents would wake up each day and ask themselves: “Who’s next?” “Who has got a stay?”

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Four persons arrested for trespassing ASI-protected Mahmud Gawan madrasa in Bidar

In Bidar, a group from the Muslim community had staged a protest outside Town police station demanding legal action against the trespassers who, they alleged, attempted to instigate communal violence

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Madras HC directs T.N. government to explain how road laying work was sanctioned when ASI feared damage to Villupuram hilltop temple

The Madras High Court wants to know status of investigation in case booked against two for using explosives to lay the road

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Sannati: Ancient Buddhist site finally in focus after 20 years

Hardly paid attention to for two decades, Archaeological Survey of India has now taken up conservation work at this important Buddhist site near Kalaburagi

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Delhi HC declines urgent hearing on plea against stopping of prayers at Mughal Mosque

A plea challenging the Archaeological Survey of India’s stopping of prayers at the Mughal Mosque in the Qutub Minar complex was turned down by the Delhi High Court

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A pale shadow of its glorious past

Therazhunthur has a prominent place in Tamils’ cultural and spiritual history

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Qutub Minar not a place of worship: ASI

Archaeological Survey of India says the complex is not a place of worship and neither was it one when it was first notified as a protected monument in 1914

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Explained | What is the controversy around Odisha’s Jagannath temple Heritage Corridor Project?

The Archaeological Survey of India told the Orissa High Court this month that no permission was granted to the State government for construction around temple

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Govt. reconstitutes Central Advisory Board on Archaeology

CABA is revised for a period of three years

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Allahabad HC adjourns hearing of Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi Mosque case

HC fixes April 4 for next hearing

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ASI Director-General visits Halebid

Senior officers of the Archaeological Survey of India, including Director-General V. Vidyavathi, on Tuesday visited Halebid in Belur taluk, and inspected the maintenance of the historical monuments. The Hoysala temples of Halebid and Belur have been nominated by the Union Government for the UNESCO’s World Heritage Site tag.

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ASI monuments to be free for all visitors on Women’s Day

All ticketed Centrally protected monuments will be free for all visitors on Tuesday on the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Archaeological Survey of India said on Monday.

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Blaze on Golconda Fort alarms citizens

A big blaze on the upper reaches of the Golconda Fort on Wednesday evening has been put out, according to the Archaeological Survey of India officials. Nobody was harmed as the the fire spread in an open area before it was controlled. The fire could be seen from a great…

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Two-day conference on temple architecture begins

Union Culture Minister G. Kishan Reddy on Friday said the role of temples should be seen through “multiple dimensions”, while inaugurating a two-day conference on temple architecture organised by the Archaeological Survey of India at Hampi, Karnataka.

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ASI reviving underwater wing, says Culture Ministry

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) was in the process of reviving its underwater archaeology wing that had become defunct over the years, according to Culture Ministry officials recently.

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