All schools from class 1 to 8 will remain closed till January 4 in view of the severe cold wave in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi, informed District Magistrate S Rajalingam on Monday.
On the first day of the New Year, 'Ganga aarti' was performed at Varanasi's Assi Ghat in the early hours on Sunday. People gathered at the ghat to watch the Ganga aarti.
A Ukraine national, who came to Varanasi was living as a hermit, died by suicide at a private guest house near Narad Ghat in Bhelupur on Sunday. The man was identified as Kostiantyan Benev and his body has been sent for post-mortem, the police said.
After Congress leader Ajay Rai refused to apologise for saying 'latka-jhatka' which is argues that it is a "common phrase", Union Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday said that using such a bad phrase is not the culture or tradition of Varanasi adding that it might be a mirror of Congress's poli
The West Bengal Government led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has planned to organise Ganga Aarti in the ghats of the city. The area from Babu Ghat in Kolkata, up to Millenium Park, is the government's first choice for the purpose.
New Delhi [India], December 19 (ANI/NewsVoir): To enable knowledge-sharing around Cervical cancer screening including the benefits of early screening with extended genotyping, BD (Becton, Dickinson, and Company) recently organized the 'Shape the future of Cervical Cancer screening' discussio
Among the injured persons were eight women, four men, and bus conductor Dinanath who has been reported as a resident of Almori village in UP's Bhadohi.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 17 (ANI/PNN): The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council - Texprocil and the Cotton Corporation of India - CCI today signed an MoU for branding and traceability of Indian-grown Kasturi Cotton during the two-day Textile Conclave coinciding with the eve
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said the country saw the revival of the centuries-old bond of knowledge and ancient civilisational link between the North and the South, "strengthening the vision of 'Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat".