According to the police, the grenades were discovered by sweepers who were cleaning the area.
The convicts were arrested from Jammu and Saharanpur.
"I believe that I should have also been listed as an accused by the CBI," says Hazaari Lal, one of the thousand karsewaks, who pulled down the mosque on December 6 1992, a day that shook India.
The student of Ohio University at Athens was identified as Abhishek Singh from Faizabad.
Significantly, none of the one-time frontrunners of the temple movement were around. Even former local MP and founder of the Hindu hardline Bajrang Dal Vinay Katiyar kept away from Ayodhya.
The apex court said the parties in the matter should be ready to start the hearing on the appeals which are before it.
Visitors to shrines were being searched thoroughly.
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'We all know that when the Babri Masjid was demolished, P V Narasimha Rao was prime minister.' 'He did not do anything to stop the demolition.'
The SC also said that if parties to the case want to amicably resolve the matter through mediation, they can still go ahead with it.
Claiming there was nothing religious about Vishwa Hindu Parishad's 84 Kosi Yatra, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today described it as a "political drama" which his government had not allowed to be staged.
A 5-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, in its historic verdict delivered on a court holiday, held that the lawsuit of the deity was "within the period of limitation" and granted the title decree in its favour.
'Of all the PMs of India, I had the closest relationships with Morarji and Rajiv.' Mark Tully, the most famous foreign correspondent in India, remembers some encounters with prime ministers, dictators and militants.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has suspended six officials, including District Magistrate Markan Dey Singh, in connection with the alleged suicide in Barabanki district.
'Gods of different religions haven't warred, so we shouldn't either.'
A law is needed to widen the purview of the council and bring the electronic media under it, Justice Ray told reporters in Faizabad on Friday night.
Ayodhya attackers get 14-day judicial remand
Four militants arrested in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the July 5 bid to storm the makeshift Ram temple complex in Faizabad were on Friday remanded to 5 days in police custody. \n\n
A Division Bench, headed by Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal, asked the Uttar Pradesh government and Allahabad High Court Registrar General to file replies by next Monday.
Meanwhile, interrogation of Rehan, the driver of the jeep used in the attack and Rajkumar, driver of the taxi, hired by the terrorists, was underway.\n
Meanwhile, the district administration also admitted that only five militants were involved in the attack and not six as claimed by it till yesterday.
Security at all sensitive places, including the makeshift Ram Lalla structure on the acquired land, has been stepped up.
Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, representing the Muslim parties in the case, tore up a pictorial map.
The karsevaks marched to Ayodhya from Faizabad this morning through the railway track despite the presence of heavy police force.
Doctor arrested in connection with Ayodhya attack
'What the Hinduisation of Muslim names by the BJP suggests is that the party's anti-Muslim outlook matches the virulence of almost any other far right outfit such as the Ku Klux Klan,' argues Amulya Ganguli.
Accusing Narendra Modi of using religion for canvassing by putting out Lord Ram's portrait in the backdrop at his Faizabad rally, Congress on Monday approached Election Commission demanding registration of an FIR against him and other party leaders as well as derecognition of BJP.
Although conventional political wisdom would decree that the construction of a 'magnificent' Ram temple at his 'birth-place' would bring the BJP a big yield of votes in the prospective elections, its leaders know by now that the mandir must not exist in isolation in its game plan, reports Radhika Ramaseshan.
The Sahara Group said on Tuesday it would build 50 self-sufficient townships in Uttar Pradesh with modern facilities and amenities at an investment of over Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion).
The counsel appearing for both the Hindu and Muslim parties expressed confidence over the ongoing mediation proceedings and said they are fully cooperating with the process.
Saturday marks the 11th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
The top court said there are serious infirmities in the oral accounts of Nirmohi witnesses that the disputed structure was not a mosque but the Janmabhoomi temple.
The bench said after perusing the report, if it came to a conclusion that an amicable solution through mediation was not possible, then the apex court would commence day-to-day hearing in the matter from July 25.
Attacking Narendra Modi's close confidant and former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah over his Azamgarh comment, Rashtriya Janata Dal President Lalu Prasad on Tuesday called him a 'terrorist'.
The submissions were made during the eighth day hearing in the case before a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi.
The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday arrested around 340 people, including former Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Legislative Assembly Lalu Singh, and put 42 others under house arrest on the eve of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's 'Sankalp Diwas' rally in Ayodhya, which has been banned by the state government.
Six deaths were reported in Hamirpur, followed by five in Bahraich, two each in Faizabad, Amethi, Rae Bareli, Mirzapur, Chitrakoot, Jaunpur, and Robertsganj and one each in Balrampur and Budaun.
The ASI, which had found artefacts, idols, pillars and other remains, stated in its report about the existence of a massive structure beneath the 'alleged Babri Masjid'.
Rain and thunderstorm wrecked havoc in several parts of Uttar Pradesh leaving at least 21 dead
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