Gorakhpur: A minor altercation over giving way on a narrow village road turned violent in Gorakhpur’s GIDA area late Monday, leaving a car driver injured and his vehicle reduced to ashes after an alleged attack by motorcycle-borne youths.The incident occurred at Nagwa village under the GIDA police station limits. According to police, Nandan Pandey, who…
Varanasi: Workers of Ganga Samagra cleaned Shultankeshwar Ghat and performed puja and aarti of Maa Ganga on Tuesday on the occasion of Ganga Dussehra.Volunteers reached the ghat early morning and carried out a cleanliness drive. Regional organisation secretary Sanjay and Sah Prant Sanyojak Diwakar Dwivedi performed the rituals.Addressing the gathering, Sanjay stressed the need for…
Varanasi: Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on Tuesday signed an MoU with Northern State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation to promote academic, scientific, and cultural cooperation between the two institutions.The MoU was signed in the presence of vice-chancellor, Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi and senior functionaries from both sides. From BHU,…
Varanasi: Police on Tuesday claimed to have solved the murder of a 24-year-old property dealer, who was shot dead on May 21, allegedly by the man driving the car in which they were returning home from a wedding ceremony.Mubarakpur police arrested Umashankar Yadav, alias Pintu, and his accomplice, Virendra, alias Bindu Yadav. Azamgarh SP Anil…
Varanasi: The uncle of a 22-year-old Varanasi woman was awarded life imprisonment Monday for repeatedly raping and impregnating her in 2012. The convict’s nephew (the woman’s distant cousin), too, was sentenced to life for aiding the rapist in setting the survivor’s brother ablaze in 2016.District and Sessions Judge Kuldeep Singh also fined each convict Rs…
Varanasi: Mau Sadar MLA Abbas Ansari, son of late gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, has come under Mau police scanner for allegedly violating bail conditions. The Supreme Court had granted him bail in a Gangsters Act case lodged in Chitrakoot, with the condition that he inform police before visiting his constituency.Police said Abbas did not inform them…
Varanasi: Amid rising temperatures and heatwave conditions, health experts have advised people to follow Ayurvedic practices to remain healthy during the scorching summer.Prof. Anand Chaudhary of the department of Ras Shastra and Bhaishajya Kalpana, Faculty of Ayurveda, IMS-BHU, shared traditional Ayurvedic remedies to help people protect themselves from intense heat. He said that some traditional…
Varanasi: In efforts towards getting the city freed from garbage accumulated at the dumping ground in Karsada, the Varanasi Municipal Corporation initiated the disposal process following a formal launch by Mayor Ashok Kumar Tiwari on Tuesday. The mayor said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had initiated this project on April 28, and in over a…
Gorakhpur: Gorakhpur is all set to establish a Centre of Excellence of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) for rowing near Ramgarh Tal on the directives of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.The proposed facility,to come up at the world-class Water Sports Complex, aims at providing international-standard training to rowing athletes.The move gained momentum after Ramgarh Tal…
Varanasi: A 20-year-old and his juvenile aide were arrested after an exchange of fire with Bilariyaganj police personnel in Azamgarh district early Tuesday morning. The duo had snatched the purse of a woman who was commuting on an e-rickshaw on May 23. The 20-year-old accused was identified as Fuzail Ahmad.Azamgarh ASP (rural) Chirag Jain said…
