Breaking news live: Hello and welcome to the ABP Live breaking news live blog. Follow this space for all breaking news and latest updates from India and around the world. The ASI team will begin surveying the Gyanvapi complex around 7 am on Monday. A team from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) arrived in Varanasi on Sunday to conduct a scientific survey to determine whether the Gyanvapi Mosque located next to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple is built over a temple. The Hindu side’s lawyer Madan Mohan Yadav said an advocate for each of the petitioners will accompany the survey team, news agency PTI reported.
Allahabad HC to hear plea against proposed demolition of mosque minaret in Ayodhya
As construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya nears completion, there is a fight in the Allahabad High Court over an 18th-century mosque minaret encroaching on the proposed Ram Path, a road leading to the temple. The matter will be heard by the Lucknow bench of the high court on Monday (July 24). According to PTI, a minaret of Khajoor ki Masjid at Gudri Bazaar in the heart of Faizabad city is said to be encroaching on the proposed Ram Road.
The mosque committee has filed a petition in the high court. Trying to tear down the minaret by force is reprehensible.
Request for free sanitary napkins for girls of class 6-12 to be heard by SC
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a petition on Monday seeking directions to states and the Center to provide free sanitary pads to girls in class 6-12 and ensure a separate female toilet in all government-aided and residential schools, PTI reported.
Social worker Jaya Thakur’s plea is scheduled to be heard by a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra. The apex court had earlier asked the Center to prepare a standard operating procedure and a national model to be adopted by all states and Union territories to manage menstrual hygiene of school-going girls.
On April 10, the top court said the issue was of immense importance and the Center should collaborate with all stakeholders for the implementation of a uniform national policy on menstrual hygiene management in schools, including government and aided schools.
