Gangster Arrested in Encounter with Ghazipur Police Varanasi: Nandganj police arrested a rewarded gangster after an encounter near Dhampur Gharwa turning in the wee hours on Tuesday.Ghazipur ASP (city) Rakesh Kumar Mishra said that on being tipped off about the movement of criminals, a Nandganj police team reached Dhampur Gharwa turning and started checking vehicles.Around…
Bismillah Khan’s ancestral home to be rebuilt with museum space Varanasi: Soon, the dilapidated ancestral home of shehnai maestro and Bharat Ratna awardee late Bismillah Khan will be replaced with a new building that will include space for a museum housing his awards, shehnais, including the silver one used to play Asuo-ka-Najrana during Muharram, and…
Varanasi: A labourer was killed and two others were injured after the shuttering of an under-construction temple dome collapsed in Devkhari village near Bhanwarnath temple under the Kandharapur police station area of Azamgarh district on Monday.The accident occurred during the casting of the dome roof of a Khatu Shyam temple being built along the Azamgarh-Faizabad…
Varanasi: The fifth edition of Kashi Tamil Sangamam will be held from Nov 28 to Dec 12 with a view towards further strengthening the centuries-old cultural and civilizational ties between Kashi and Tamil Nadu. The theme this year is ‘Tirukkural Payilvom – Let Us Learn Tirukkural’. Tirukkural is the timeless work of saint-poet Thiruvalluvar. Its…
Varanasi: Sindhora police and Special Operations Group-2 raided a house in Sindhora Bazaar late on Monday and seized over 500 kg of finished and semi-finished firecrackers, along with raw explosive materials.Sindhora police station in-charge Pankaj Kumar Pandey said on Tuesday that acting on a tip-off about illegal firecracker manufacturing and storage, a team raided the…
VARANASI: “I become CM when I don’t contest elections,” Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Tuesday, indicating that he would not contest the upcoming UP assembly elections.Speaking to the media, SP supermo said, “I become CM when don’t contest elections. In past I had gone to swear in as CM while being a…
Varanasi: Escalating the BJP’s counterattack on Rahul Gandhi’s allegations against the Election Commission, party spokesperson Sambit Patra on Monday accused the Congress leader of misleading the nation with claims of the deletion of 13 crore votes. Citing the Congress’s record of repeated electoral defeats, Patra said the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls was a…
Varanasi: The Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) and the Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell), IIT-BHU, in collaboration with Cisco thingQbator, powered by NASSCOM Foundation, organised a two-day ‘Innovation Mela’ from Oct 31 to Nov 1.Held on the theme ‘Empowering Ideas, Enabling Change,’ the event aimed to foster creativity, promote entrepreneurial thinking and skills to develop…
Gorakhpur: An 18-year-old youth died under suspicious circumstances after partying with friends at a house in Shahpur area on Sunday night. His mother has accused his friends of killing him.The deceased was a resident of Saraswatipuram Colony in Shahpur. His father, who hails from Gopalganj in Bihar, works as a labourer while his mother is…
Varanasi: The skies above Kashi are set to come alive with colour and adventure once again as hot air balloon rides return to the city from Nov 15. Tourists and locals will soon soar nearly 1,000 ft above the ground, taking in breathtaking views of the mythological ghats along the Ganga and the city’s iconic…
