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TopicVaranasi

Topic: Varanasi

Hindu Varanasi or Mughal Banaras? A Toronto professor wants you to look at hidden histories too

Malavika Kasturi's mission isn't to puncture Varanasi’s Hindu city narrative. Instead, she wants to challenge the one-history-one-city model.

Agra & Varanasi among 4 UP cities set to issue municipal bonds to raise money for infra development

New Delhi: The municipal corporations of four Tier-2 cities in Uttar Pradesh — Agra, Kanpur, Prayagraj and Varanasi — will issue municipal bonds by...

UP’s jailed gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari gets life for 1991 murder of Awadhesh Rai

Rai was shot dead on 3 August that year in front of the Varanasi house of his brother and former Congress MLA Ajay Rai.

‘Deity’s right, nod to worship’ — the 8 Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi cases clubbed by Varanasi court

Order issued Monday by court of Varanasi district judge Ajaya Krishna Vishvesha, who said the cases were of a similar nature and clubbing them would help avoid contradictory orders.

India’s elderly await death, seek salvation in holy city

Murali Mohan Sastry is waiting peacefully for death on the banks of Ganges River, hoping that by dying in Varanasi. He can break the cycle of death & rebirth, an article of faith for many Hindus.

Rahul Gandhi ‘denied permission’ to land in Varanasi, says Congress. Airport denies claim

UP Congress Zonal President Ajay Rai said the Wayanad MP was to visit the Kashi-Vishwanath temple in Varanasi and the Anand Bhawan in Prayagraj.

UP Global Investors’ Summit: Renewable energy bags maximum commitment of Rs 4.4 lakh crore

According to UP govt data 19,000 MoUs were signed & close to Rs 35.5 lakh cr pledged in investments. Gautam Buddha Nagar got 27% of commitments, followed by Agra, Lucknow & Gorakhpur.

Varanasi’s mini-Tamil Nadus live in mutts, family shivalayas and stories of saints

Centuries-old cultural connection between Varanasi and Tamil Nadu has resurfaced in public conversations since PM Modi inaugurated the Kashi Tamil Sangamam at BHU recently.

Varanasi court to deliver verdict today on plea seeking worship of ‘Shivling’ in Gyanvapi mosque premises

During the previous hearing that took place in October, the Varanasi court had refused to allow a 'scientific investigation' of the purported 'Shivling' found on mosque premises.

Varanasi court rejects plea for carbon dating of ‘Shivling’ found inside Gyanvapi mosque complex

One of the Hindu petitioners also opposed the plea saying any such examination of the object would in all likelihood cause 'irreparable damage to it, rendering it unworthy of worship'.

On Camera

Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?