Varanasi | In a jolt to Hindu petitioners, a Varanasi court, on Friday, rejected the petition seeking carbon dating of the purported ‘Shivling’ found in the Gyanvapi mosque complex. Hindu petitioners said that they would study the verdict and then decide whether to approach the high court. The petitioners had claimed that the ‘Shivling’ found in […]
Varanasi | Varanasi will soon get its 85th Ghat, named NaMo. The NaMo Ghat has three pairs of hands, folded in ‘namaste’. NaMo, incidentally, is often used for Prime minister Narendra Modi. The two 25-feet-tall and one smaller ‘namaste’ statues have already been installed at one of the three promenades on the ghat. A 75-ft-tall statue […]
Varanasi | The poster war over the now-famous West Bengal slogan “Khela hobe” is raising the heat in Uttar Pradesh where Assembly elections are a few months away. After the Samajwadi Party put up hoardings and posters with the tagline “2022 mein khela hoi” in Kanpur and Varanasi, the ruling BJP has reacted with posters that […]
Varanasi | A Covid negative mother has given birth to a baby who tested positive immediately after being born. The 26-year-old mother had tested negative for coronavirus before the delivery when she was admitted to SSL Hospital in Banaras Hindu University on May 24. On May 25, the woman gave birth to a baby girl who […]
Varanasi (UP) | Noted physicist Prof. Onkar Nath Srivastava, Emeritus Professor, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), who was awarded the Padma Shri in 2016 for his research on hydrogen energy and nanotechnology, died of Covid at BHU hospital. The cremation was held on Sunday. He was 79 and was on ventilator support at Sir Sunderlal Hospital after […]
Varanasi | In a statement that is bound to create controversy, UP minister Anand Swarup Shukla has termed jailed mafia don and BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari as an ‘Islamic terrorist’. Talking to reporters in Ballia, Shukla accused the Congress for allegedly shielding Ansari. “It is in the DNA of the Congress to patronise Islamic terror and […]
Varanasi: A probe has been ordered against doctors and other health staff of the S.S.L. hospital of the Banaras Hindu University for conducting a surgery during power cut by using the flashlight of mobile phones. The members of the team in the operation theatre had clicked photographs and video of the surgery and posted them on […]
Varanasi: The proposal of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) to appoint Nita Ambani, wife of industrialist Mukesh Ambani, as a visiting professor, has met with resistance by a small group of students. BHU’s Social Sciences Faculty had recently sent a proposal to Reliance Foundation, asking Nita Ambani to join the university as a visiting faculty at their […]
Varanasi | The first toilet for transgenders in Uttar Pradesh has been built by the state government in the Kamachha area in Varanasi under the Smart City project to ensure the participation of the community in the cleanliness of the city. Varanasi mayor Mridula Jaiswal inaugurated the toilet on Thursday. “It is the first transgender toilet […]
Varanasi: Shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan’s house, which was being demolished to give way to a commercial complex, has been stopped, the Varanasi Development Authority (VDA) said. A team of VDA comprising zonal officer and junior engineer had visited the maestro’s house in the Hadaha Sarai locality last week after it came to light that a […]
