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Varanasi South seat has Kashi Vishwanath Corridor, but PM Modi is ‘missing’ BJP MLA’s only hope

BJP is pulling out all stops to ensure Varanasi South doesn’t become a spoiler in PM’s LS constituency. NDA had won all 8 segments here in 2017. But MLA issue is a larger problem.

Modi’s Kashi project is living up to a continuing ancient tradition of rebuilding temples

We have enough legends, stories and texts to justify and praise the Kashi project. I only hope that the effort to reduce dirt and debris is taken up at other sites as well.

PM’s Kashi visit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Saudi ban on Tablighi Jamaat — Page 1 news from Urdu press

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

From Ayodhya to Kashi, BJP changed its strategy from ‘demolition’ to construction

With the inauguration of Kashi Vishwanath Dham by PM Modi in Varanasi, BJP’s ‘Kashi project’ is almost complete, and so is the invisibilisation of Gyanvapi mosque.

‘Har Har Modi’ in Kashi – TV channels gave Modi a mythical status & aura none can challenge

PM Narendra Modi has achieved virtual canonisation – on TV news – in his lifetime, a feat unparalleled for the political leader of a democracy.

Whenever an Aurangzeb has risen, Shivaji, Suheldev have also emerged: PM Modi in Kashi

PM Modi is on a two-day visit to Varanasi, which is also his Lok Sabha constituency. He inaugurated Kashi Vishwanath corridor Monday, weeks before UP polls.

UP polls approaching, Kashi corridor inauguration today by PM Modi has a ‘message’ from BJP

PM Modi will inaugurate Rs 800-cr Kashi-Vishwanath corridor today. With eye on 2022 polls, the BJP plans to organise 30 programmes in Varanasi in a month.

Jobs or moksha? Modi’s Kashi corridor in Varanasi comes at a price

Ghats of India’s holiest city look cleaner than when we last visited, but the rest of the city remains filthy as ever.

Kashi Vishwanath has become a construction site. Varanasi’s piousness is the cost

Many see the redevelopment of Kashi Vishwanath temple as befitting the ancient Hindu faith. But it's destroying what made Varanasi a special city.

PM Modi to inaugurate Kashi Vishwanath temple corridor in Varanasi on 13 December

A pet project of the PM, the much larger Kashi Vishwanath complex can now hold nearly 75,000 people. It’s also a key project for the Yogi Adityanath govt ahead of UP elections. 

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Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.