The Orissa High Court has halted ASI’s concreting work on Satyabrata Stadium’s walking track. The bench cited risks of joint strain, slips, and falls, especially for the elderly and children.
The court heard a petition which seeks a scientific survey by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) of the ablution area (wazu khana) of the Gyanvapi complex, excluding the Shivling.
Due to the Supreme Court's stay order, arguments could not be held as the Supreme Court, through an interim order, has restrained the courts from passing any effective interim or final order, including survey orders.
"At present, no ongoing projects are available to be executed at monuments under the jurisdiction of the ASI which are located in DDA owned land," Union Minister for Culture and Tourism Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
“Men were rich in those days and could afford to put a hundred cubic feet of masonry into the grave of even so humble a person as ’Jno Clements, Captain of the Country Service, 1820” — Rudyard Kipling, 1891.
On this day last year, WHO launched a global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem, with a resolution passed by 194 nations.
As per the Act of 1991, no relief can be sought for changing the status of any religious place as it existed on August 15, 1947, he argued and added that the order for conducting the survey is illegal.
After Ramappa temple was declared as a World Heritage site on Sunday, the minister for municipal administration and urban development K.T. Rama Rao tweeted that the government's next aim is to get World Heritage site status for Hyderabad.
Archaeological Survey of India’s Delhi circle took the initiative by illuminating the historical monuments on the occasion of World Heritage Day in New Delhi.
A five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, said the inferences from the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) report were drawn by "cultivated and studied minds."
