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ASI seeks 15-day extension from Varanasi court to file survey report of Gyanvapi mosque complex

According to Centre’s counsel, Archaeological Survey of India has moved an application stating that though the survey work has been completed, technical reports are still awaited.

Gunner, govt car, circuit house suites. Not just Ghaziabad cops, ‘VIP conman fooled Varanasi police too’

Varanasi police, who assigned a gunner & police escort to Anoop Chaudhary at least 7 times this year, have lodged an FIR against him. Chaudhary was arrested by UP STF last month.

Varanasi court adds 1 more to suit of 8 Gyanvapi cases — demand for handover of complex’s basement

In the latest suit filed, the petitioner seeks permission as a pujari to restart prayers in the tahkhana (basement) area of Gyanvapi complex & demands its supervision be handed over to DM.

PM Modi lays foundation stone of international cricket stadium in Varanasi

Former India cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Ravi Shastri, BCCI President Roger Binny, and secretary Jay Shah were present on the occasion.

‘Muslim kids at RSS shakhas, Hindus played at mosque’—Gyanvapi now a saga of who prayed where

Gyanvapi domes make BJP member Harihar Pandey seethe with anger. He is 77 now, but is building a sena to take up cudgels on his behalf.

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.

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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.