Varanasi: A booth level Samajwadi Party workerwas murdered by unidentified miscreants in Tedua village of Mirzapur on Monday night.As per reports, the miscreants used a sharp-edged weapon to slit the throat of Sohan Yadav alias Sonu (52), a booth unit president of SP.In his complaint Sonu’s son Sandeep informed police that his father had gone […]
Varanasi: The use of fertilizer made from glass can help in turning the barren land, even lying unused for decades, cultivable, a new research suggests.Conducted by a team of researchers from the department of ceramic engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), the research has the potential to give a new dimension to the […]
Varanasi: The counter manager of a bar, Sunil Kumar Singh (28), died after falling off the roof of the bar in Nadesar area in the wee hours on Tuesday. A staff of the bar called up Cantt police and informed them about the incident. Later, a police team led by inspector Durgesh Kumar Mishra reached […]
Varanasi: In view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed visit to his parliamentary constituency in the last fortnight of this month, the district administration has started making preparations in full swing. According to sources, PM Modi is likely to attend the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra and Kashi Tamil Sangamam 2.0 during his two-day proposed visit […]
Varanasi: Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) on Tuesday initiated attachment proceedings against big house tax defaulters. However, as soon as the proceedings were initiated against a hotel in Lahurabir locality, the defaulter paid the dues of Rs 6.25 lakh. Similarly, an amount of Rs four lakh was paid by another defaulter soon after the attachment proceedings […]
Varanasi: Referring to BJP win in three of the four states where assembly election results were announced on Sunday, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said it is “a part of democracy which every political party will have to accept”. He said, “One must learn from such debacles, regroup and prepare for the challenges of the […]
Varanasi: Beggars’ Corporation, a profit company that turns beggars into entrepreneurs, has launched a 100-day citizen awareness campaign aimed at making Varanasi the first Indian city to be free of beggars by March 2027. The functional idea of the organisation is to encourage people not to donate to the beggars, but to send them to […]
Varanasi: Prof. Wangchuk Dorjee Negi assumed charge as the Vice-Chancellor of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Education (Deemed to be University) in pursuance of the orders of the Ministry of Culture, on Monday.Prof. Negi had been working as a professor in the department of Mool Shastra and was holding the additional charge of the […]
Varanasi: Hearing on the plea of advocate Vijay Shankar Rastogi demanding to make him a party in a civil suit filed by head priest of Acharya Ved Vyas Peeth temple Shailendra Kumar Pathak Vyas to seek appointment of receiver of the cellar (tahkhana) in the southern side of Gyanvapi structure, completed in the court of […]
Varanasi: Even as 30,000 registrations have been received for participation in the second edition of Kashi Tamil Sangamam (KTS 2.0), only 1,500 of them will get the opportunity to take part in the cultural extravaganza, scheduled to begin on December 17.Finalising the arrangements, officials on Saturday said that on the portal of KTS 2.0 prepared […]
