Varanasi: A Pocso court in Varanasi awarded 20 years rigorous imprisonment to a tuition teacher for sexually assaulting his 12-year girl student.Quoting the Sanskrit shloka “Gurudevo na par tatva, gurudevo na par gyan” (There is no supreme reality or essence (tatva) higher than Guru nor there is no supreme knowledge or wisdom greater than what…
Varanasi: Traffic police on Wednesday issued diversions for Thursday’s visit of defence minister Rajnath Singh, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu.Autos and e-rickshaws will be barred from 9 am to 3 pm on routes including Police Line, Sigra, Rath Yatra, Lahurabir, Maidagin and Cantt-BHU stretches. Four-wheelers, buses and…
Varanasi: To mark the beginning of month-long birthday celebration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, arrival of dignitaries began with the landing of flight of defence minister Rajnath Singh in the evening.Main celebration will start with motorcycle rally from Rudraksh Convention Centre here to be flagged off by Rajnath Singh and chief minister Yogi Adityanath on…
Varanasi: A 55-year-old woman from Buxar (Bihar), rescued by fishermen from a hut in a flooded village in Ballia district, was reunited her with family on Tuesday.But before leaving for home, Sunaina of Kapurpatti village in Buxar, surprised everyone by claiming that she survived for 10 days consuming only Gangajal. Mother of five, Sunaina said…
Varanasi: The National Centre of Ageing (NCA) at IMS-BHU has cautioned job aspirants after forged appointment letters were found circulating for various outsourced posts at the centre .NCA nodal officer Prof Anup Singh said some people had received fake appointment letters issued on an unauthorised letterhead. He clarified that the documents were forged and had…
Gorakhpur: BJP national general secretary and UP assembly polls in-charge Vinod Tawde is expected to arrive in Gorakhpur on Thursday for a two-day organisational review meeting to assess the party’s preparations for the upcoming assembly elections.Regional BJP general secretary Satyendra Sinha said Tawde’s visit will include meetings with senior party leaders and elected representatives to…
Varanasi: Indian cricketer Rinku Singh will marry Samajwadi Party MP Priya Saroj at a ceremony in Lucknow on Dec 4.Priya’s father, Tufani Saroj, a three-time Lok Sabha MP and current MLA from the Kerakat assembly constituency, confirmed the wedding date on Wednesday.He said the date was finalised with the consent of both families.The Saroj family’s…
Suresh Khanna Orders Immediate Cleanup Varanasi Slum, orders salary deduction of staff concerned Varanasi: UP finance and parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Kumar Khanna, who is also the minister in charge of Varanasi, reprimanded municipal officials on Wednesday over poor civic conditions in the city and ordered deduction of two days’ salary for negligence.The minister conducted…
Varanasi: Nagari Pracharini Sabha president Vyomesh Shukla while recalling the contributions of legendary litterateur Bharatendu Harishchandra on his 177th birth anniversary said the poet is the pioneer of modern Hindi literature.While addressing a gathering at Bharatendu Bhavan, the ancestral residence of literature, Shukla on Wednesday described Bharatendu as a figure who embodied both tradition and…
Gorakhpur: Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology (MMMUT) will adopt 100 tuberculosis (TB) patients as part of the programmes being organised to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 76th birthday on Sept 17, said the university.The initiative aims to support the national campaign for a TB-free India by providing nutritional and emotional assistance to the patients…
