PTI | |Taking strong exception to dissident candidates using BJP flag and banners during the ongoing panchayat elections, state party president Laxmikant Bajpai on Thursday asked them stop this or face consequences.
Rajeev Dikshit | |Several labourers were killed while many others suffered serious injuries in an explosion that took place in the store of a mining site at Raas hill area under Obra police station,
TNN | |Even as Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) drags its feet in maintaining cleanliness at ghats along river Ganga, divisional commissioner Nitin Ramesh Gokarn gave necessary instructions to corporation officials on Wednesday.
Rajeev Dikshit | |Taking note of the high court orders banning idol immersion in Ganga, many puja committees have decided to celebrate Durga Puja with ‘Kalash sthapana’ (holy urn installation), adding to the administrations’ woes.
TNN | |The district administration has created three ponds as an alternative arrangement for immersing Durga idols in compliance with the Allahabad High Court order banning immersion in the Ganga.
Rajeev Dikshit | |Congress MLA Ajay Rai, who is lodged in Fatehgarh jail of Farrukhabad district for his alleged involvement in October 5 Varanasi violence, was booked under NSA.
Binay Singh | |The construction of proposed Trade Facilitation Centre and Crafts Museum was started almost a year after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation stone in Bada Lalpur area of his parliamentary constituency on November 7, 2014.
TNN | |Noted sociologist and founder of 'Sulabh International', Bindeshwar Pathak, has been nominated for 'New York Global Leaders Dialogue Humanitarian Award' to be given at New York in first week of November. Pathak is the only Indian to be nominated for the award.