Varanasi

Varanasi: Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) has signed an MoU with BHU for joint efforts in areas of urban management, infrastructure development, environmental sustainability, civic services, beautification, and social development initiatives for the benefit of citizens and the academic community.Municipal commissioner Himanshu Nagpal and BHU registrar Prof Arun Kumar Singh signed the formal agreement.As per the…

Varanasi: In a major boost to maternal and newborn healthcare services, Varanasi has received a significant gift. South city MLA and former minister Neelkanth Tiwari on Sunday laid the foundation stone of Varanasi’s first MSNCU (Maternal Sick Newborn Care Unit) building at the Govt District Women’s Hospital in Kabirchaura. This state-of-the-art health unit, to be…

Varanasi: Body of a 15-year-old girl was found lying in a pool of blood almost 200 meters away from her home in a village under the limits of Padri police station area of Mirzapur district on Sunday morning.“We have arrested the girl’s boyfriend Sajan alias Rajan (18) and teams have been deployed for arrest of…

Varanasi: In a drive launched against unauthorised priests, guides and middlemen operating around Kashi Vishwanath Dham to dupe pilgrims by promising ‘Sparsh Darshan’ (touching the deity) at Kashi Vishwanath Temple, police arrested 23 offenders in Chowk and four in Dashaswamedh area on Sunday.ACP (Dashashwamedh) Atul Anjan Tripathi said that after complaints of pilgrims being duped…

Rai’s Wife Accuses BJP Of Political VendettaRajeev.DikshitVaranasi: Two more FIRs were registered against UP Congress chief Ajay Rai for his alleged derogatory remarks against PM Narendra Modi.The FIRs were lodged by Varanasi residents, Sunita Soni and Aryan Pandya, at the Chowk police station in the city on Saturday night. Rai was booked under Section 352…

Varanasi: Many cops and villagers suffered injuries after a group of villagers attacked a police team in Molnapur Talgaon under Bhudkuda police station in Ghazipur district on Saturday afternoon.The police, along with the land revenue department officials, had arrived at the site to solve a dispute over a drain when one of the groups turned…

Varanasi: A 12-year-old girl was allegedly sold by her mother for Rs 16,000 and 10 saris, repeatedly raped by a 40-year-old man in Chandauli, and later sexually assaulted again by an auto driver in Varanasi after being abandoned near a railway station, police said.According to Sarnath police, the girl was found roaming and crying in…

Gorakhpur: In a major push towards women empowerment, construction of a 500-bed working women’s hostel has started in Gorakhpur under the Chief Minister Shramjeevi Mahila Chhatravas Yojana.The project, coming up at Khuthan in Chargawan block, will be built at a cost of Rs 47.38 crore and is targeted for completion by Sept 2027.Spread across 6,640…

Varanasi: A minor boy from Sonbhadra district died after he and his four friends were beaten with sticks and rods by guards of a private security company, at Namo Ghat, around 3 am on Sunday. Police arrested four security guards in this connection.ACP (Kotwali) Vijay Pratap Singh said that around 3 am, five boys who…

VARANASI: A 17-year-old tourist from Sonbhadra died on Sunday following an alleged scuffle with private security guards at Namo Ghat in Varanasi, police said. Kotwali Assistant Commissioner of Police Vijay Pratap Singh said the incident took place in the early hours of Sunday in the Namo Ghat area under the Adampur police station limits. Four…