The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the plea of dismissed BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav, challenging the Election Commission's decision to reject his nomination papers from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat. ...
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has thrown a hint that she is not averse to taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his own Lok Sabha constituency.'Shouldn't I fight from Varanasi?'...
Two part-time municipal sweepers hired by a private company to clean a sewer in Varanasi died after climbing down the manhole, apparently buried under a mountain of sewage disgorged by a burst pipe.Th...
Amnesty International on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath to allow peaceful demonstrations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in ...
Right from his first book in 2009, New York-based author and journalist Aatish Taseer has been the toast of literary circles for his prose style, as much as he has been the subject of abuse for his co...
A Trinamul Congress parliamentary delegation led by Derek O’Brien, the party’s leader in the Rajya Sabha, was detained at Varanasi airport on Saturday morning when the leaders landed there for a p...
Cows can always depend on the kindness of politicians. Sensitive to the dignity of the gau mata, the director of the animal husbandry department of Madhya Pradesh has said that cows let loose by their...
According to updates reported by the Election Commission of India at around 1:15 pm, nearly 64 per cent of the votes counted in Varanasi were in favour of Narendra Modi. His nearest rival, Shalini Yad...
Residents of a Dalit hamlet in Varanasi district have accused police of assaulting and terrorising them on Monday night, leaving at least 10 women injured among dozens, after a failed raid to arrest t...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said political parties and pundits had failed to gauge the public mood ahead of the Lok Sabha elections and thanked voters for their support, his assertion com...