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Topic: Varanasi

Decoding the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi dispute, and why Varanasi court has ordered ASI survey

SC said in 2019 Ayodhya verdict that status of no other place of worship will be allowed to change. Yet, civil judge has ordered ASI to find if mosque is built over temple.

Why mosques in rear view mirror, like Kashi’s Gyanvapi, can crash India’s drive into future

Court’s order to ASI to survey Gyanvapi Mosque for remains of old Kashi Vishwanath Temple questions the optimism that Ayodhya wouldn’t be repeated.

Opposition guarded as BJP welcomes ASI survey of Kashi temple and Gyanvapi mosque

Top Muslim leaders said they would challenge the Varanasi court order while AIMIM questions legality of order. Opposition parties such as SP, BSP and TMC have refused to comment.

PM Modi interacts with Varanasi’s Covid vaccine beneficiaries

The prime minister had said the interaction would give first-hand opportunity to hear the experiences as well as get feedback from frontline warriors who are getting vaccinated.

4 arrested after allegedly listing PM Modi’s Varanasi office for ‘sale’ on OLX

An FIR was immediately lodged at the Bhelupur police station, and the matter is being investigated, Varanasi SSP Amit Pathak said.

With Nagari Pracharini Sabha’s ruin, Hindi is losing a major centre and its best think-tank

Caught between a bitter fight and a court battle, Varanasi’s Nagari Pracharini Sabha, once the most prestigious body for promotion of Hindi, needs urgent intervention.

BJP MP Subramanian Swamy now wants to ‘reclaim’ Kashi Vishwanath temple

Subramanian Swamy says panel led by him formed to ‘liberate’ Kashi Vishwanath site. Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, however, bars forcible changes to any place of worship.

Varanasi has vigorously countered coronavirus crisis, says PM Narendra Modi

Interacting with Varanasi-based NGOs, PM Modi said Kashi can emerge as an export hub and develop as a key centre of 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' campaign in the coming days.

FIR against Scroll’s Supriya Sharma for story on Varanasi woman’s lockdown ‘misery’

The story had quoted Mala Devi saying she faced food shortage due to absence of a ration card. She lives in Domari village in Varanasi, PM Modi's constituency.

Banarasi silk industry has a Covid fear: Indian festivals may never be the same again

Varanasi textile traders say the industry was already affected due to demonetisation and GST, and the Covid-19 lockdown was a ‘double whammy’. 

On Camera

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.