Shivling

The Varanasi district court earlier had asked the Gyanvapi mosque management to file its objections to the plea for carbon dating of Shivling

The Hindu side will seek an ASI survey, carbon dating of Shivling if Varanasi court delivers verdict in their favour.

Jagadish and his wife Anjana Biswas handed over the Shivling to the police after finding it in a river

Mahua Moitra is booked under section 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage reli­gious feelings) of the IPC.

A viral video has emerged where two young people in Chandigarh were seen pouring beer on a Shivling while the song "Bhole Baba" played in the background.

On June 10, Prayagraj witnessed heavy stone-pelting on the police forces by Islamists after the Friday Namaz and the situation continues to remain tense in the city.

Saba Naqvi had shared a picture of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre to mock the Shivling discovered inside Gyanvapi compound

Last month, a Shivling was found submerged in the wuzukhana, the place where people who offer namaz, the Islamic prayer, clean their dirty hands and feet and gargle water as a cleansing ritual, inside the complex where the disputed structure called 'Gyanvapi mosque' is.

Apart from the usual anonymous trolls on Twitter, several "blue ticked" handles joined in to mock Shivling and the Hindu beliefs.

“We should be given the right to worship Adi Vishweshwar Shivling found in Gyanvapi. If this doesn’t happen, there should be prohibition on offering namaz on the upper floor of the Gyanvapi complex,” the chief of the Parishad Mahant Balakdas was quoted.