Varanasi: A shopkeeper and five of his family members were allegedly attacked after he refused to sell cloth on credit at Purjagir market under the Chilh police station area of Mirzapur district.According to police, the victim, Ajay Sonkare, runs a cloth shop in the market. Around 9 am on Monday, Rizwan Ahmad of Saripatti Basthan…
Varanasi: A family’s Diwali celebrations turned into mourning after a 19-year-old girl was found dead in a room on the second floor of her house in Kulmanpur village under Gopiganj police station area of Bhadohi district.According to reports, family members were busy with festival preparations outside the house on Sunday when the girl’s sister-in-law went…
One killed other injured in firing during gambling in Ghazipur, accused village head surrendered Varanasi: One person was killed while another suffered a bullet injury when Bakrabad’s village head Sanjay Bind (40) opened fire at them during a dispute over gambling in Mohav village under Kotwali police station in Ghazipur district late on Monday night.Police…
Varanasi: The city celebrated Diwali on Sunday with traditional rituals, illuminated streets, crowded ghats and prayers across homes and temples, while a group of Muslim women, associated with Vishal Bharat Sansthan and the Muslim Mahila Foundation, organised a Shri Ram Maha Aarti at Lamahi village.The programme was held at Subhash Bhavan, where women gathered with…
Varanasi: One person was killed and two others were seriously injured after their car crashed into a roadside tree as the driver allegedly tried to avoid a nilgai on the Thekma-Martinganj road near Gothaon village in Azamgarh district on Sunday night.The accident took place around 9:30 pm in the Bardah police station area.The deceased has…
Varanasi: The festival of Annakoot was celebrated with devotion and grandeur at Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham on Tuesday, on the Pratipada Tithi of Shukla Paksha in the month of Kartik.Observed in commemoration of Lord Krishna’s worship of Govardhan Parvat, Annakoot symbolises abundance, food security, gratitude, and reverence for nature and the divine.On the auspicious occasion,…
Varanasi: A 40-year-old man was killed and two members of his family were seriously injured after a group of attackers allegedly stormed their home during Diwali celebrations and assaulted them with sticks and a gandasa in Basra village under the Teji Bazaar police station area of Jaunpur district.The deceased has been identified as Ramesh Yadav….
Heroin Worth Rs 4 Cr seized by Ghazipur Police, Four Drug Traffickers nabbed Varanasi: In a major anti-narcotics operation on Tuesday, a joint team of SWAT, Surveillance Cell and Jangipur Police arrested four interstate drug traffickers near Arshadpur Tiraha on Varanasi-Gorakhpur highway after 2 kg of heroin worth Rs 4 crore was recovered from them.Ghazipur’s…
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Bahraich: Panic gripped villagers in the Nishangara Range of the Katarniaghat Wildlife Division after a leopard reportedly attacked a moving motorcycle near Azamgarhpurwa village on Sunday evening. The two riders narrowly escaped after the motorcyclist accelerated and managed to move away from the animal.According to reports, the leopard suddenly emerged from a sugarcane field near…
