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UP: PM Modi's parliamentary constituency Varanasi too witnesses protests and sabotage against Agnipath scheme

Massive protests against Agnipath scheme of the Central Government to recruit youth in the Indian Armed Forces have spread in many states. In Varanasi too, army aspirants are strongly opposing the scheme. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Uttar Pradesh: Agnipath flames reach Varanasi, Ballia

VARANASI: While the railway station was ransacked and a train was set on fire in Ballia, several buses were damaged in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Friday in protest against the newly introduced Agnipath recruitment scheme in the army.

The Times of India

Uttar Pradesh: Seers slam Friday’s violence, seek invoking NSA against troublemakers

VARANASI: Varanasi-based forum of prominent seers, the Kashi Dharma Parishad, has condemned the violence that broke out after Friday namaz across the country.

The Times of India

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FIR registered in Varanasi for threat to judge of Gyanvapi case

VARANASI: An FIR was lodged with Cantt police on Thursday against an unknown person for issuing threat to civil judge (senior division), Ravi Kumar Diwakar, who had ordered the survey of Gyanvapi premises by a court-appointed commission.

The Times of India

Uttar Pradesh: Court turns down seer's petition to worship 'shivling'

Varanasi: The court of Varanasi district judge on Wednesday rejected the plea of Swami Avimukteshwaranand seeking rights to worship the purported 'shivling', claimed to be have been found in the ablution pond of Gyanvapi mosque during the recent court commission survey.

The Times of India

Travancore Devaswom Board to renovate assets at Varanasi

Board has inn, dharmasala in its possession

The Hindu

Johnny Depp books out posh Indian restaurant and spends £50,000 on a single meal

The actor is in the UK appearing on stage with Jeff Beck

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Uttar Pradesh: When Samajwadi Party govt tried withdrawing cases against Varanasi blast accused in 2012

VARANASI: Ten years before Monday’s decision of the Ghaziabad sessions court of awarding death penalty to Waliullah Khan in March 7, 2006, serial blasts in Varanasi, the then Samajwadi Party (SP) government in the state had sought legal opinion for the withdrawal of cases from some terrorists, including Waliullah.

The Times of India

Akhilesh Yadav's cousin, Azam Khan's close aide SP picks for LS bypolls in UP

VARANASI / LUCKNOW: Curtains came down on the suspense over Samajwadi Party’s pick for Lok Sabha bypoll on Monday with former Badaun MP Dharmendra Yadav filing his nomination from Azamgarh – putting to rest speculations over former Kannauj MP Dimple Yadav contesting from the seat. The surprise, however, came from…

The Times of India

Bangladesh railway minister Mohd Nurul Islam Sujan visits Varanasi

Varanasi: Railway Minister of Bangladesh, Mohd Nurul Islam Sujan visited the Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) and saw the manufacturing process of the locomotives in the workshops on Tuesday. The Bangladesh rail minister, along with a high-level delegation, arrived Varanasi on a two-day visit on Monday. The BLW general manager Anjali…

The Times of India

Uttar Pradesh: Another plea seeking 'puja' rights at Kashi Madhav temple filed

VARANASI: A fresh petition was filed in the court of civil judge (junior division) Akash Verma, seeking rights to perform 'puja' at the city's Bindu Madhav temple inside Beni Madhav-ka-Dharahara alleging that it was also destroyed by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, who converted it into a mosque in the name of…

The Times of India

Uttar Pradesh: Another plea seeking 'puja' rights at Kashi's Bindu Madhav temple filed

The Times of India

Gyanvapi case: Plaintiffs demand probe into survey footage leak

VARANASI: Complaints were filed by the plaintiffs in the court of district judge Ajay Krishna Vishwesha on Tuesday demanding probe into the leak of the video footage of the court-mandated survey of Gyanvapi mosque in the Shringar Gauri case soon after the videos, photographs and report had been handed over…

The Times of India

Illegal liquor worth Rs 50 lakh seized in Prayagraj

PRAYAGRAJ: The Special Task Force (Prayagraj unit) on Monday claimed to have busted an interstate racket involved in liquor smuggling and arrested its two key operatives near Wahida power house on Prayagraj - Varanasi highway and seized illegal liquor consignment worth Rs 50 lakhs from them.

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Varanasi: Let there be communal harmony and peace, says Gyanvapi judge

VARANASI: 'Let communal harmony and peace prevail (bhaichara bana rahe)', with this advice, Varanasi district judge Ajay Kumar Vishvesha handed over the copies of court commission report on Gyanvapi to the four plaintiffs on Monday.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 221: Targeting Gyanvapi mosque

Host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Aishwarya Iyer of Scroll who talks about her series on the Hindutva campaign around the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

The Times of India

Gyanvapi row: Vedic Sangh chief seeks ban on disclosing survey details

NEW DELHI: Vishwa Vedic Sanatan Sangh chief Jitendra Singh Visen, one of the plaintiffs supporting the petitioners in the Shringar Gauri case, requested the Varanasi district magistrate on Friday to ban publication and disclosure of photographs and video from a survey of Gyanvapi mosque “in the interest of national security…

The Hindu

Gyanvapi case | Hindu plaintiffs suit not maintainable, says mosque panel

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Gyanvapi and the principle of non-retrogression

The Supreme Court of India must ensure the continuity of this doctrine of progressive realisation of rights

The Hindu

Budget for overall development of Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath

U.P. budget blends measures to augment farming, technological innovations and employment in the State along with elaborate architectural constructions to further the Hindu cultural narrative

The Independent UK

Dispute over mosque becomes religious flashpoint in India

For nearly three centuries, Muslims and Hindus in India’s Varanasi city have prayed to their gods in a mosque and a temple that are separated by one wall

The Hindu

Gyanvapi, Mathura case hearings on May 26

New civil suit seeking right to worship on Varanasi mosque premises transferred to fast-track court

The Hindu

Fact check round-up: Misinformation on Gyanvapi mosque survey

Here is a compilation on various claims going around regarding Kashi Viswanath temple and Gyanvapi mosque, and the truth behind them.

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Gyanvapi Mosque Case: Today's hearing complete in Varanasi district court; order for further hearing tomorrow

Today's hearing regarding Gyanvapi mosque case has been completed in Varanasi district court. The court has reserved the order and will decide tomorrow on further hearing. Read more on Dynamite News:

The Times of India

Varanasi: Gyanvapi case hearing to start in court of district judge on Monday

VARANASI: The court of district judge would start hearing of Gyanvapi-Shringar Gauri case (no-693/2021 Rakhi Singh Vs UP government and others) on Monday since all the related files were transferred to it on Saturday in compliance with the Supreme Court’s May 20 order of shifting the trial from civil judge…

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