Varanasi: Responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for fuel conservation and sustainable living, the municipal corporation of his parliamentary constituency, Varanasi, has decided to observe a ‘No Fuel Day’ every Saturday in a bid to curb fuel consumption and contribute towards strengthening the nation’s economy.Mayor Ashok Kumar Tiwari, along with councillors of the municipal…
Varanasi: High voltage drama unfolded at the BHU gate in Lanka area and at Sardar Patel Maldahiya crossing where scores of sanitary workers dumped garbage and staged demonstration demanding wage hike, on Wednesday morning. They said they are compelled to work for up to 18 hours a day, so their remuneration should be increased judiciously.Taking…
Varanasi: An Indian Merchant Navy officer Manish Dwivedi, native of Mirzapur, has gone missing mysteriously from a port in Pennsylvania, USA since May 6. Accused the ship management company of not providing clear information, his distressed family met local MP and Union minister Anupriya Patel in Delhi on May 11.Anupriya sent a letter to MEA…
Gorakhpur: A man allegedly shot dead his sister-in-law before killing himself in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar on Wednesday morning. Police said the accused had arrived at his in-laws’ house in Tamkuhiraj area from Bihar on a motorcycle and called the girl to his room.Police said that Jitendra Prajapati (27), resident of Gopalganj district, Bihar, first shot…
Gorakhpur: Gorakhpur is set to get a major boost in sports infrastructure as chief minister Yogi Adityanath will lay the foundation stone of an international cricket stadium in the city on Saturday.The stadium, coming up at Tal Nador on the Gorakhpur-Varanasi highway, will be built at a cost of Rs 392.94 crore. Officials said the…
Varanasi: A special health camp was organised on Wednesday at the under-construction terminal site of Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport as part of the state govt’s 100-day Special TB Patient Detection Campaign.The camp was set up at the site operated by Ahluwalia Contracts, where a large number of construction workers underwent health screening. Doctors conducted…
Varanasi: Ballia native Raj Singh, arrested for the murder of West Bengal CM Shubhendu Adhikari’s aide, Chandrakant Rath, was jailed in 2020 for the murder of a disabled egg seller, Ajeet Gupta. He was currently out on bail.The forensic science lab report confirmed that the bullet extracted from Ajeet Gupta’s body was fired from the…
Varanasi: District social welfare officer Rajesh Chaudhary was arrested from Kunwar Singh Udyan area in Azamgarh by the Kotwali police on Wednesday for allegedly paying Rs 51.46 lakh as salary to 10 illegally appointed teachers.Azamgarh ASP (city) Madhuwan Kumar Singh said Chaudhary (55), native of Ambedkarnagar and posted in Azamgarh, was booked along with head…
Varanasi: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, while virtually addressing a spiritual seminar held at BHU under the banner of Somnath Swabhiman Parva, on Tuesday said that at a time when the world was facing multiple crises, India’s spiritual philosophy and cultural values could provide meaningful direction to humanity.The event was jointly organised by Sanskriti Vibhag, Uttar…
Varanasi: Taking serious note of gross negligence in drain cleaning in Mahmoorganj area, municipal commissioner, Himanshu Nagpal on Monday imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on the concerned executing agency, Samarth Enterprises, and also issued an adverse entry to regional junior engineer, Pankaj Patel on charges of failing to monitor and exercising negligence.Nagpal, while inspecting…
