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Varanasi weavers hit by Covid and wrong policies: Priyanka writes to UP CM

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra wrote a letter to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on the plight of the weavers in the Prime Minister's Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Bengal's frontline workers fret over Durga Puja

Hospitals spend 3x more on oxygen despite price caps, Varanasi's 200-year-old Ram Lila disrupted, Delhi govt's advice on treating dengue, malaria--news on how the country is coping with the pandemic

Ghats in Varanasi submerged as water in Ganga rises due to heavy rains

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), some isolated places in Uttar Pradesh are likely to receive more rainfall for the next few days

Seers irked as civic body taxes prayers, events at Varanasi's Ganga Ghat

Heavy fines for encroachment and littering, religious preachers dwelling on the riverbank to pay registration fee

Big traders hire online experts as Benares silk goes digital to stay afloat

Many of the smaller ones are hopping on to the e-commerce and social media bandwagon in order to survive amid the Covid crisis

Now get 'prasad' by post from Kashi Vishwanath temple during Sawan

To get the prasad , one has to send an electronic money order ( EMO) of Rs 251 from any post office to senior superintendent of Posts Offices, Varanasi east division

Varanasi boatmen face financial hardships, say on the 'brink of poverty'

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on May 30 issued new guidelines for phased re-opening of "all activities outside containment zones for the next one month beginning June 1"

With Unlock 1.0, business of betel leaves resumes in Varanasi's Pan Dariba

"We suffered a lot because we deal with raw material, we had to throw away a large number of leaves. Now that the market has reopened, people are a little relieved," says a seller

Coronavirus hits UP's silk, embroider trade as raw material supplies dry up

The rates of raw silk yarn and embroidery material have gone up drastically

Kashi Mahakal Express commercial run begins: Know timings, halts here

The Indore-Varanasi Kashi Mahakal Express will operate three days in a week; twice through the Sultanpur-Lucknow route and once through the Prayagraj route

Modi sticks to guns in Varanasi: 'Tough decisions' on CAA, Art 370 to stay

PM sees tourism a key driver of $5 trn economy goal, says projects totalling Rs 25,000 cr have either been completed or are underway in holy city

PM Modi to inaugurate projects worth over Rs 1,000 cr in Varanasi tomorrow

The PM will also address a rally in his parliamentary constituency

IRCTC to run third private train in Varanasi-Indore route from Feb 20

The tour packages will cover Kashi, Omkareshwar, Mahakaleshwar, Bhopal, Sanchi, Ujjain, Bhimbetka, Ayodhya and Prayag, according to the statement.

PM Modi's constituency Varanasi among 20 best performing 'smart cities'

The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has paired up 20 best performing cities with the 20 bottom cities and they will work as "sister cities"

Varanasi, city of antiquity, gets a new look but grapples with modernity

Change is resisted, and Varanasi is no exception. Many talk of how the city's cultural heritage is being ruined

UP to provide loans totalling Rs 5,000 cr to MSMEs under ODOP scheme

Adityanath government has tied up with commercial banks for extending credit line

Priyanka Gandhi stopped from going to Sonbhadra to meet clash victims

I can move ahead only with four people. I want to meet the victims, said Priyanka Gandhi

Kanwar Yatra: Excitement among youth for Modi-Yogi t-shirts in Varanasi

The Kanwar Yatra begins on July 17 and will continue till August 15

Kashi Vishwanath Heritage Zone: The undoing and redoing of history

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the Kashi Vishwanath Heritage Zone in Varanasi on Friday

PM Narendra Modi pitches Varanasi for cruise tourism, cargo handling hub

Modi said that by leveraging India's first multi-modal terminal (MMT) on river Ganga, Varanasi could become a major hub for 'nature, culture and adventure' in Eastern India