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Sudhir Kumar

Sudhir Kumar

Sudhir Kumar is Varanasi based senior staff correspondent.He covers all developments, politics, education--primary, secondary and higher -- crime, offbeat, tribes and human angle stories

Articles by Sudhir Kumar

PM Modi to launch free cooking gas scheme, solar-powered boats today

Tight security arrangements have been made for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Maldepur at Ballia on Sunday

Updated on May 1, 2016 04:40 IST

I wish to come back to Kashi every year: Ghulam Ali

Ghulam Ali left Varanasi with a promise to see the people of Kashi in 2017.

Updated on Apr 27, 2016 14:01 IST

First ‘climate change’ school network comes up in Kashi

A team of Japanese experts, in association with IESD professors, will impart training to 40 teachers, including 10 from CCS and 30 from educational institutions in the vicinity of climate change schools.

Updated on Apr 16, 2016 07:26 IST

Kashi engineer’s kin appeal to PM to get him freed from pirates

Santosh Bhardwaj’s wife, Kanchan, has written to the PM with an appeal to accelerate efforts to rescue her husband.

Updated on Apr 3, 2016 16:32 IST

Prisoners free officials of Varanasi jail after assurance of probe

Jail inmates shout slogans.

Updated on Apr 2, 2016 13:46 IST

Ganga’s width shrinking, oxygen level falling: Study

The study says the oxygen level in the water of the river once famed for its high purifying quality, has fallen to 4 mg per litre from 6 mg per litre.

Updated on Apr 2, 2016 07:21 IST

The Varanasi haveli that isn’t, but Aamir wants to buy it

Syed Hasan Raza (in blue shirt) shows the plot where the Khwaja Manzil once stood. The haveli caved in around 15 years ago.

Updated on Mar 15, 2016 06:08 IST

Modi, Irani, Shah have no idea of varsity culture, claims Cong leader

Congress national general secretary Mohan Prakash criticised the NDA government saying it was trying to impose shackles on intellectuals and students

Updated on Mar 8, 2016 04:01 IST

Terror alert: Heavy security cover at Kashi Vishwanath temple

Police officers stand guard outside the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi on Monday.

Updated on Mar 7, 2016 11:32 IST

PM Modi prays at Sant Ravidas temple on day two at Varanasi

BJP supporters taking out a rally during an election campaign in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh.

Updated on Feb 22, 2016 07:27 IST

Failure to change locals’ mindset bogs Varanasi in Swachh Survekshan

While the Opposition blames the Centre for taking no concrete initiative to develop the infrastructure required to keep the city clean, several others blame the mindset of the locals for poor sanitation.

Updated on Feb 15, 2016 20:24 IST

Varanasi: Blinded patients were given Avastin despite alert

The Drug Controller General (India) issued an alert on January 21 this year, asking the drug controllers in the states and union territories to monitor the movement of Avastin and its use in ophthalmology.

Updated on Feb 2, 2016 06:54 IST

Despite Modi’s assurance, Varanasi falls short of 1st ‘smart city’ list

A supporter of Bharatiya Janata Party holds up a cutout of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an election campaign rally in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

Updated on Jan 29, 2016 05:57 IST

Modi distributes aid to differently-abled, flags off train in Varanasi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacting with a 'Divyang' (physically challenged) child while distributing aid & assistive devices at a function, in Varanasi on Friday.

Updated on Jan 22, 2016 12:39 IST

Tourists in mind, Kashi priests all set to master foreign languages

Experts from the Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management will teach these languages to the selected pandas for a month.

Updated on Jan 14, 2016 08:05 IST

Social activist asks BHU why he was sacked in RTI plea

Updated on Jan 10, 2016 08:53 IST

Varanasi decks up to present a slice of India to Japanese PM

Members of Indo-Japan Friendship Club and sand artists of BHU Fine Arts make portraits of PM Narendra Modi and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe in front of Assi Ghat in Varanasi.

Updated on Dec 11, 2015 19:59 IST

No place for Nehru, Indira pics on BHU political science dept walls

Images of Acharya Narendra Dev, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Deen Dayal Upadhyay on the BHU political science department walls

Updated on Nov 24, 2015 04:45 IST

No short dresses! Foreigners to wear sari, dhoti at Kashi Vishwanath

Foreign tourists in a lane near the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi. The trust of the temple has issued an order asking foreign tourists in short dresses to wear a sari or dhoti and ‘anga vastram’ before entering the sanctum sanctorum.

Updated on Nov 23, 2015 13:27 IST

‘Bazaru’ Chetan Bhagat’s work lacks seriousness: Akademi award winner

Chetan Bhagat during the launch of his new book Half Girlfriend in Mumbai.

Updated on Oct 17, 2015 13:24 IST

I’ll do in 50 months what others couldn’t do in 50 years: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet industry leaders on Tuesday against the backdrop of a gloom in the market. (AFP File Photo)

Updated on Sep 18, 2015 12:39 IST

51,000 ‘sisters’ get insurance as Rakhi gift in PM’s constituency

The latest and the coolest trend is of rakhis with pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Photo)

Updated on Aug 29, 2015 15:21 IST

Foreign tourists ask PM Modi to make Varanasi filth-free

Foreign tourists have asked PM Modi to hold a cleanliness drive in Varanasi. (HT File Photo)

Updated on Aug 14, 2015 17:39 IST

UP girls wade troubled waters, face harassment to reach school

Girls from Pahadpur, Ghatak and Byonda villages are compelled to cross the Dhonda river on a makeshift boat to reach their school in Shergarh town. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 24, 2015 10:53 IST

Pesticides killed 5 tigers in 3 years in UP forests

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Updated on Jun 3, 2015 19:36 IST

Tourism treat soon in erstwhile terror territory

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Updated on Sep 23, 2012 07:08 IST

UP jail pitches for 'college' on premises

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Updated on Sep 16, 2011 18:01 IST

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