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Topic: Bhadohi

Bhadohi is Sant Ravidas Nagar again: The politics & process behind a district’s fourth renaming

Created by Mulayam Singh government in 1994, the district has switched between Bhadohi and Sant Ravidas Nagar under the BSP, BJP, SP and now BJP government. 

‘No proof against MLA’ — UP Police gives clean chit to BJP leader, 4 sons in gang-rape case

BJP MLA Ravindra Nath Tripathi's nephew Sandeep Tiwari has been arrested. The MLA and six of his family members were booked in a gang-rape case.

Shutdown looms over eastern UP’s once-thriving carpet industry

Around three lakh people are directly involved in the carpet industry in the Bhadohi-Varanasi region, but are suffering due to a frightening slump.

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What makes India so fascinating is that no one can prepare for it: German Ambassador

Philipp Ackermann, the Ambassador of Germany to India since 2022, writes that it was Vikram Seth's novel 'A Suitable Boy' that first brought him to India in 2007.

Despite PM Modi’s appeal to cut fertiliser use, farmers show no sign of scaling back—Parliament data

Combined sales of urea, DAP, MOP and complex fertilisers rose 25 percent in April even as Modi asked farmers to cut chemical fertiliser use by up to half to save soil and foreign exchange

Gen VN Sharma, who led Army in the turbulent late eighties, dies at 97

Hailing from an illustrious military family, he was son of Maj Gen Amar Nath Sharma. His eldest brother Maj Som Nath Sharma is the first recipient of the posthumous Param Vir Chakra.

India’s Gen Z has opened a breach, for BJP to fill or Opposition to widen

The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.