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'Chalo Varanasi, Chalo Ayodhya' hoardings on Uddhav's b-day
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 26 (ANI): A day ahead of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray's 58th birthday, the party's leader Milind Narvekar has put up hoardings across Mumbai with the call of 'Chalo Varanasi, Chalo Ayodhya'.
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Miffed over negligence, hockey player's widow to return awards
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 17 (ANI): Accusing the central government of doing little for hockey player Mohammed Shahid, his widow on Tuesday said she will return the awards, including Padma Shri, won by her husband in his lifetime,
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Modi supporters gather to see his glimpse as he travels across Varanasi
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 15 (ANI): As Prime Minister Narendra Modi's convoy travelled across his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi late Saturday night, his supporters gathered in number to see his glimpse.
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No development in Varanasi under previous Govts: PM Modi
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 14 (ANI): Addressing a public event in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that development was stalled in the region, under the previous Governments.
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PM to launch mega projects in UP tomorrow
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be launching various mega projects during his two-day visit to Varanasi, Azamgarh and Mirzapur districts starting tomorrow.
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Passenger's tweet saves 25 girls from being trafficked
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): Security personnel rescued 25 minor girls from the Muzaffarpur-Bandra Awadh Express after a passenger tweeted to the Railways as he sensed the girls were in trouble.
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Aftab Ansari to serve 10-year jail term for smuggling arms
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], July 4 (ANI): A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court sentenced Aftab Ansari, the mastermind behind the 2002 American Center attack in Kolkata, to 10 years' imprisonment in an arms and ammunition smuggling case.
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UP farmer's daughters plough field to please rain God
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 02 (ANI): Faced with the prospect of going yet another monsoon season without proper rainfall, two daughters of a farmer in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district have joined their father in ploughing the field to appease the rain God, Lord Indra.
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NMCG reviews Namami Gange projects in Varanasi
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): Director General of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Rajiv Ranjan Mishra held a review meeting of all ongoing projects under Namami Gange programme in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Saturday.
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Adityanath flags off air services between Varanasi, Kathmandu
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Babatpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 29 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath flagged off the air services between Varanasi and Kathmandu in Nepal from Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport at Babatpur Friday evening.
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Water crisis hits Varanasi as heat takes toll on River Ganga
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 28 (ANI): The water level of river Ganga went down significantly in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi forcing the concerned department to issue water crisis alert in many parts of the city.
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UP: Frogs get 'hitched' to please rain God
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jun 24 (ANI): A wedding ceremony of two plastic frogs took place here, in the hope of an early monsoon.
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