The Latest Breaking News from Varanasi

Spiritual tourism is seeing a boom in India thanks to the wide reach of social media and better transport connectivity.

The festival of Ganga Dussehra is celebrated with great fervour and enthusiasm in cities like Prayagraj and Varanasi. Read further on Dynamite News:

This is PM Modi's "moral and political defeat" and such thing has never happened that a Prime Minister was trailing from his own constituency. Read further on Dynamite News:

A summary of exit polls project the NDA could win between 355 and 380 seats in the 543-member lower house of parliament.

India's gruelling heatwave is set to abate soon but that was no consolation to housewife Bindwasvini Devi, one of the millions braving Saturday's scorching sun to vote in the final day of national elections.

This week, we bring you TV Newsance from ground zero in Varanasi. In this special episode, we found a live debate being held by our usual suspect, News18’s Amish Devgan, on the ghats of the ancient city.   

In this episode of Another Election Show from Varanasi, we sat with the students of the city’s Banaras Hindu University to talk about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s representation from the constituency, works of the central government and the local issues.  

Modi is expected to comfortably win his seat, but the margin of victory could reveal how his party is doing nationally.

Varanasi, Banaras, or Kashi has been home to spirituality, music and literature for centuries, with personalities such as Dara Shikoh, Pandit Ravi Shankar and Bismillah Khan associated with the ancient city. But over the past decade, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the incumbent MP from Varanasi, the city has undergone…