Varanasi: Intensifying it’s Dalit outreach bid ahead of 2027 UP election, BJP national president Nitin Nabin and state chief Pankaj Chaudhary will launch a countrywide Kalash Yatra from the birthplace of Sant Ravidas in Seer Govardhanpur in Kashi on Jul 29.Made of clay collected from the Sant’s birthplace 131 kalash (urns) will be taken to…
Ancient Kashi to go high-tech with AI-based crowd management Varanasi: Kashi is set to usher in an AI-powered era of crowd and mobility management, with tourists and devotees soon navigating the heritage city through an intelligent, technology-driven system. Combining artificial intelligence-powered sensors and cameras, generative AI, digital signages, colour-coded routes and AI-based pedestrian navigation, the…
Prayagraj: Five drones, a network of CCTVs, barricading on Ganga ghats and travel route, one-way reserved for kanwariyas’s free flow and Quick Response Teams (QRTs), health checking teams are few security features that Prayagraj police commissionerate authorities have drafted to deploy on the kanwar route in order to maintain a strict surveillance between Prayagraj and…
Artist impression of Varanasi police commissionerate headquarters’ building Varanasi The UP govt has approved Rs 64 crore for the construction of the Varanasi Police Commissionerate headquarters, which is likely to come up on the Traffic Lines campus and be completed during 2027-28.Talking to TOI on Sunday, commissioner of police Mohit Agrawal said the budget for…
Energy minister AK Sharma on Sunday launched a 76-day public outreach and cleanliness campaign in the City South assembly constituency Varanasi: Urban development and energy minister AK Sharma on Sunday launched a 76-day public outreach and cleanliness campaign in the City South assembly constituency, under which local MLA Neelkanth Tiwari and BJP workers will visit…
Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta offers prayers at Vindhyavasini Temple in Mirzapur Varanasi: Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday offered prayers at the Vindhyavasini Temple in Mirzapur, inspected the Vindhyachal Corridor and later participated in the world-famous Ganga aarti at Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi after receiving a grand welcome from BJP functionaries and workers…
Varanasi: Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFC) on Friday signed an MoU with the Varanasi Municipal Corporation for the rejuvenation and development of ponds, kunds (water reservoirs) and community wells across the city under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative.The agreement was signed in the presence of mayor Ashok Tiwari, PFC chairperson and managing director Parminder…
Varanasi: Rath Yatra Mela, one of Kashi’s grandest religious festivals, commenced on Thursday at Rathyatra Chowk, drawing thousands of devotees who gathered to pull the grand chariots of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and goddess Subhadra through the city’s decorated streets amid chants of ‘Jai Jagannath.’Devotees started arriving at the fair venue from the morning to…
Varanasi: When VB-G Ram G Act was introduced in Parliament, Opposition had to withdraw its objections after understanding the objectives, said deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya at Panch Sammelan, organised by Union ministry of rural development, at the Rudraksh International Convention Centre, on Thursday. The conference brought together around 500 gram pradhans from UP,…
Varanasi: Heavy traffic load, especially of vehicles carrying pilgrims, will ease on Varanasi roads in a couple of years as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gifted two elevlated roads worth Rs 25,000 crore to his constituency.A meeting of cabinet committee on economic affairs, chaired by PM Modi in New Delhi, gave its approval to a…
