The Latest Breaking News from Varanasi

HC hears plea against district court order to survey Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi to determine if temple existed at same spot. The Supreme Court halted the ASI survey till 5 pm July 26, allowing time for mosque management to appeal.

A caveat petition in the Gyanvapi case was filed by Rakhi Singh, a petitioner from the Hindu side, in the Allahabad High Court on Monday, on the order of Varanasi Court directing a survey of the sealed area on the mosque complex by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Read…

Varnasi Court orders survey of Gyanvapi Mosque. Petition filed by Hindu group to determine if mosque was built on site of Hindu temple. Muslims oppose plea, fearing damage to complex.

Indian Railways has linked 175 cities/areas to 725 stations, making it easier to identify small stations near popular areas/cities. Passengers can now look up Sarnath near Varanasi or Sabarmati near Ahmedabad when booking tickets on website/app. This will help with better journey planning and ease station search for tourists. Changes…

LUCKNOW: On Saturday Indian Railways changed divisional railway managers of Lucknow, Varanasi, Jhansi, Moradabad and Agra.

After Uttar Pradesh police registered a case against Samajwadi Party (SP) worker Ajay Yadav alias Ajay Fauji and four others for masquerading as vegetable vendors drawing attention over an alleged price rise and protecting tomatoes at a vegetable shop in Varanasi, the SP president Akhilesh Yadav on July 10 lashed out…

Prime Minister Narendra on July 7 said previous governments came up with their welfare schemes sitting in air-conditioned rooms without seeing their impact on the ground.

In the first leg of a two-day whirlwind tour across four states, PM Narendra Modi on Friday visited Raipur in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh besides also making a stop at his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi.

Village middle school students in Varanasi learn lessons using virtual reality videos for STEM subjects