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Nimrat Kaur looks breathtaking beautiful in Rs 45k mint silk lehenga, flaunts Banarasi craft
By Zarafshan Shiraz | Hindustan Times, Delhi
UPDATED ON JAN 07, 2021 12:24 PM IST
The Lunchbox actor Nimrat Kaur’s throwback pictures in a handwoven mint silk lehenga have become the apple of fashionistas’ eyes this wedding season and we too can’t stop drooling over the Banarasi Kadwa craft that the Rs 45k ensemble from Ekaya Banaras sports

Uttar Pradesh: Air quality monitoring stations set up at 15 places in Varanasi
By HT Correspondent | Edited by Zara Khan | Hindustan Times, Varanasi
PUBLISHED ON JAN 04, 2021 09:45 AM IST
A team of experts maintains the data and if any datum does not confirm to the standards, the information is immediately sent to higher authorities

Aditi Rao Hydari in red organza silk saree is our fashion hero of the week for refreshing festive inspo
By Zarafshan Shiraz | Hindustan Times, Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 27, 2020 04:42 PM IST
Aditi Rao Hydari brushes aside winter gloom with her smart and sophisticated fashion inspo in a red organza silk saree featuring zardozi embroidery. Making a head-turning statement, the diva redefined timeless beauty this festive and wedding season and we can’t help but take fashion cues | Check ravishing pictures inside

Check out a virtual pandemic-era travelogue focused on South Asia
By Dipanjan Sinha | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON DEC 27, 2020 05:41 AM IST
The Daak Vaak repository on Instagram is crowdsourced, with people sending in photographs of cities they love and miss.

PM Modi’s Varanasi office listed on OLX for ‘sale’; 4 arrested
By Press Trust of India | Posted by Arpan Rai | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON DEC 18, 2020 05:09 PM IST
The accused had taken a picture of the “Jansampark Kaaryalay (public relations office)” of Modi, who represents Varanasi in the Lok Sabha, and put it “up for sale” on OLX website.

UP MLC polls heat up as aggressive BJP goes all out
By Manish Chandra Pandey | Lucknow, Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON DEC 06, 2020 12:42 PM IST
Of the 11 MLC seats —six teachers’ and five graduates’, the BJP contested nine and backed an independent for the teachers’ quota seat in Gorakhpur.

“I wanted to reach the top of my cooking game before I turned 30,” says chef Sanjeev Kapoor
By Veenu Singh | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON DEC 06, 2020 07:59 AM IST
The celebrity chef takes a walk down memory lane as he discusses his hopes, dreams and fashion sense when he was 22

BJP wins three MLC seats in UP, loses Varanasi to SP candidate
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Lucknow
UPDATED ON DEC 05, 2020 04:10 AM IST
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party won three of the six Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council seats for which results were announced on Friday.

SP wrests teachers’ seat from BJP in legislative council poll in Varanasi
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Varanasi
UPDATED ON DEC 04, 2020 05:33 PM IST
Samajwadi Party candidate Lal Bihari Yadav won the Varanasi division teachers’ seat defeating Dr Pramod Kumar Mishra of the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shikshak Sangh (Om Prakash Sharma group) and pushing incumbent MLC Chetnarayan Singh of the BJP to the third place

PM Modi shares clip of enjoying light and sound show in Varanasi. Watch
By Srimoyee Chowdhury
UPDATED ON DEC 01, 2020 01:06 PM IST
A video shared on PM Modi’s official Twitter handle shows him enjoying the light and sound show.

‘For some heritage means their family’s name’: PM Modi’s veiled jibe at Congress
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Ayshee Bhaduri | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 30, 2020 10:23 PM IST
While talking about legacy and inheritance, PM Modi said for him the country’s heritage rests only in its culture and values, unlike many others in this country, who value family above all

India giving befitting reply to anti-national forces, PM Modi says in Varanasi
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Meenakshi Ray | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 30, 2020 07:17 PM IST
The Prime Minister lit a lamp at Raj Ghat in Varanasi during the Dev Deepawali, a festival celebrated on the full moon of the Hindu month of Kartik 15 days after Diwali.

Doubts being spread against farm reforms, this has become a new trend: PM Modi in Varanasi
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Arpan Rai | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 30, 2020 04:24 PM IST
PM Modi’s remarks on farmers and country’s agricultural policies comes amid a stir by thousands of farmers who are protesting the recently cleared three farm legislations by the Parliament.

In Varanasi, PM Modi hails work done by Yogi govt, says UP now known as ‘Express Pradesh’
By Sudhir Kumar | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi | Hindustan Times, Varanasi
UPDATED ON NOV 30, 2020 06:16 PM IST
Shortly after landing at Babatpur airport, PM Modi reached Khajuri for his first public engagement where he dedicated to the nation the widened Handia (Prayagraj)-Rajatalab (Varanasi) section of National Highway 19.

Ancient idol of Goddess Annapurna to be brought back to India from Canada: PM Modi
By HT Correspondent | Edited by Karan Manral | Hindustan Times, Varanasi
UPDATED ON NOV 30, 2020 11:32 AM IST
PM Modi made this announcement on Sunday in his monthly radio address Mann Ki Baat. The announcement came a day before PM’s visit to his Lok Sabha constituency, Varanasi, for the Dev Deepawali celebrations.

Metal detectors, dog squads: Security beefed up in Sarnath ahead of PM Modi’s visit
By HT Correspondent| Edited by: Harshit Sabarwal | Hindustan Times, Varanasi
UPDATED ON NOV 30, 2020 11:53 AM IST
Located 10 kilometres northeast of Varanasi, Sarnath is a holy Buddhist site where Lord Buddha gave his first sermon. The deer park is where he first taught the Dharma.

PM Modi to visit Varanasi today, will inaugurate Varanasi-Prayagraj highway project
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kanishka Sarkar | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 30, 2020 08:23 AM IST
The Prime Minister will also attend Dev Deepawali, a festival of light and fervour in Varanasi celebrated on every Poornima of the Kartik month.

PM Modi to visit Varanasi tomorrow, will take part in Dev Deepawali
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 29, 2020 06:14 PM IST
The 73-Km stretch of the newly widened and six-laned NH19, made with a total outlay of Rs 2,447 crore, is expected to reduce the travel time between Prayagraj and Varanasi by one hour.

2022 UP polls in mind, BJP gives Sunil Bansal two deputies from RSS
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Lucknow
PUBLISHED ON NOV 29, 2020 01:17 PM IST
After its success in the recent UP bypolls, the BJP has now set its sights on winning the graduate and teachers’ constituency elections. Polling for these elections which the BJP is actively contesting for the first time, would take place on December 1.

Adityanath reviews Dev Deepawali preparations
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Varanasi
PUBLISHED ON NOV 28, 2020 11:20 AM IST
Adityanath also inspected the venue in Khajuri village, where Modi will address around 10,000 Bharatiya Janata Party workers.

Kashi craftsman weaves special ‘Angvastram’ for PM Modi with Buddhist mantra
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Varanasi
UPDATED ON NOV 27, 2020 06:43 PM IST
The craftsman, Bachche Lal Maurya, a resident of Chhahi village in Varanasi wishes that chief minister Yogi Adityanath gifts the ‘Angavastram’ to the Prime Minister during his visit to Varanasi on November 30.

Varanasi’s smart surveillance system: 3,000 cameras to keep watch over city
By HT Correspondent | Edited by Smriti Sinha | Hindustan Times, Varanasi
UPDATED ON NOV 25, 2020 10:22 AM IST
Facial recognition cameras, installed at various locations, will be connected to the Kashi Integrated Command Control Centre, now functional near the Varanasi Nagar Nigam

Supreme Court dismisses plea challenging PM Modi’s election from Varanasi
By Abraham Thomas | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 25, 2020 09:13 AM IST
The petition was moved by sacked constable of the Border Security Force Tej Bahadur whose nomination as a candidate from the Varanasi seat was rejected by the returning of

Supreme Court rejects dismissed BSF jawan’s petition challenging PM Modi’s election from Varanasi
By Abraham Thomas | Edited by Karan Manral | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 24, 2020 01:34 PM IST
A three-judge bench comprising CJI SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian noted that Tej Bahadur Yadav’s petition challenging PM’s election was rightly dismissed by the Allahabad High Court.

PM Modi likely to attend Dev Deepawali celebrations in Varanasi on Nov 30
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Varanasi
PUBLISHED ON NOV 24, 2020 08:54 AM IST
It will be the first time when Modi would be in the temple town on the occasion of Dev Deepawali

SC verdict on plea against PM Modi’s election today
By Abraham Thomas | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 24, 2020 07:26 AM IST
The matter was heard by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, and comprising justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian. The petition got registered in Supreme Court in March 2020 and was listed on two occasions -- May 22 and November 4

Canada to return statue of Hindu goddess stolen over 100 years ago from India
By Press Trust of India | Posted by Jahnavi Gupta
UPDATED ON NOV 22, 2020 02:15 PM IST
A Canadian university will soon return to India a unique statue of Hindu goddess Annapoorna that was stolen from a shrine in Varanasi over a century ago and found its way to the varsity’s art gallery.

BHU to reopen from November 23 in phased manner
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Varanasi
UPDATED ON NOV 21, 2020 11:55 AM IST
In the first phase, the final year students of PhD programmes of science streams will be permitted to visit their respective departments/labs for research work.

Supreme Court reserves order on plea challenging PM Modi’s election to Varanasi seat
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON NOV 18, 2020 02:50 PM IST
Sacked Border Security Force (BSF) soldier Tej Bahadur had approached the top court after Allahabad High Court rejected his petition on December 6, 2019, on the ground that he was neither a candidate nor an elector of Varanasi to challenge the election of the Prime Minister.

After Ayodhya spectacle, Varanasi readies for Dev Deepawali
By HT Correspondent | Edited by Abhinav Sahay | Hindustan Times, Varanasi
UPDATED ON NOV 18, 2020 11:40 AM IST
People associated with the tourism industry believe that if the government granted visas then foreign guests would come in huge numbers for the Dev Deepawali, creating a big wave in the tourism industry.