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Punjab's CS Channi's Dawn Visit To UP Temple Of Dalit Icon Ahead Of Polls
Three days before the crucial Assembly polls in Punjab, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi today made a dawn visit to a temple at a village near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
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"Despicable Trend": Editors Guild On Police Case Over Varanasi Report
The use of criminal provisions of the law against journalists has "become an unhealthy and despicable trend", the Editors Guild of India said in a statement today as it expressed concern after a police case was filed against two journalists over a a story on the ration delivery system in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi.
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Press Freedom Organisations Condemn Police Case Against Scroll Journalist
Journalists and media watchdog organisations have rallied around an editor of the news website Scroll after the Uttar Pradesh Police filed a First Information Report or FIR against her. The FIR was filed for a story by Scroll's Executive Editor Supriya Sharma on a village adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi, his parliamentary consti...
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Delhi Journalist Charged By UP Cops Over Story On Village Adopted By PM
A senior Delhi-based journalist working for a news website has been charged by the police in Varanasi for a report she recently filed from the district in eastern Uttar Pradesh that is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency.
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Banaras Hindu University Unearths 4,000-Year-Old Urban Settlement In Varanasi
A nearly 4,000-year-old urban settlement has been unearthed by a team of surveyors from the Banaras Hindu University, which experts say could be one of the craft villages mentioned in ancient texts.
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In Uttar Pradesh, Ganga Water Level Close To Danger Mark, Buildings Partially Submerged
Uttar Pradesh: Water level in river Ganga continues to swell due to heavy rainfall. Several buildings, villages, crop fields near the banks have been partially submerged under water.
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Give Water Or No Vote, Says Remote Village in Uttar Pradesh
A tiny village in Uttar Pradesh has refused to vote in the national election if they do not get permanent water supply. The village is in Sonbhadra, a district just 170 km from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi.
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"PM Tours World, No Time To Visit Villages In Varanasi": Priyanka Gandhi
In five years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not find time to visit a single village in his constituency Varanasi, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said today at a rally in Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh in her campaign for next month's national election.
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CRPF Soldier From UP Killed In Pulwama Was Helping Mother Fight Cancer
Last year in July, 55-year-old Malti Devi , a resident of Bahadurpur village in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Chandauli, was told by doctors in neighbouring Varanasi she had cancer. It was a shock that would have been too much to bear, but her son, 33-year-old Awadhesh Yadav, a soldier with the CRPF, told her not to lose hope. He promised to help her rec...
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Father-Son Killed In Dynamite Blast In UP
A man and his son were killed in a dynamite blast set off by unidentified assailants in a Varanasi village in Uttar Pradesh early on Wednesday, police said.
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Narendra Modi In UP Live Updates: "Purvanchal Expressway In UP Will Change Face Of All Villages," Says PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his Uttar Pradesh visit today, his second to this part of the state in a just over a fortnight. During his two-day, PM Modi will visit Varanasi, Azamgarh and Mirzapur.
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Year After Notes Ban, Bank Workers Who Put In Long Hours Have These Regrets
Exactly a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's notes ban announcement, at the Union Bank of India in Jayapur - PM Modi's adopted village in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi - all seems well.
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In Varanasi Village, Experiment In Cashless Transactions Nosedives
In Misirpur -- the first cashless village in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi -- life has come a full circle for Asha Devi. The 70-year-old became a media celebrity last year, posing with and even using a Point of Sale Machine, better known as a swipe machine, egged on by eager bank officials.
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Children In Varanasi Villages Suffer From Malnutrition, Alleges PIL. High Court Seeks Reply
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court has sought a counter affidavit on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) highlighting malnutrition among the children of several villages in Varanasi district. A division bench of Justice Arun Tandon and Justice Ashok Kumar, in its order dated June 20, directed the Varanasi district magistrate to file his reply on a ...
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UP Elections 2017: 11 Villages Will Soon Cease To Exist. They Vote Today - In Anger
Today, Uttar Pradesh will conclude voting for its next government by selecting the final 40 of its 403 legislators. Star status is reserved for the ancient city of Varanasi because it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency.
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Punjab's CS Channi's Dawn Visit To UP Temple Of Dalit Icon Ahead Of Polls
Three days before the crucial Assembly polls in Punjab, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi today made a dawn visit to a temple at a village near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
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"Despicable Trend": Editors Guild On Police Case Over Varanasi Report
The use of criminal provisions of the law against journalists has "become an unhealthy and despicable trend", the Editors Guild of India said in a statement today as it expressed concern after a police case was filed against two journalists over a a story on the ration delivery system in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi.
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Press Freedom Organisations Condemn Police Case Against Scroll Journalist
Journalists and media watchdog organisations have rallied around an editor of the news website Scroll after the Uttar Pradesh Police filed a First Information Report or FIR against her. The FIR was filed for a story by Scroll's Executive Editor Supriya Sharma on a village adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi, his parliamentary consti...
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Delhi Journalist Charged By UP Cops Over Story On Village Adopted By PM
A senior Delhi-based journalist working for a news website has been charged by the police in Varanasi for a report she recently filed from the district in eastern Uttar Pradesh that is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency.
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Banaras Hindu University Unearths 4,000-Year-Old Urban Settlement In Varanasi
A nearly 4,000-year-old urban settlement has been unearthed by a team of surveyors from the Banaras Hindu University, which experts say could be one of the craft villages mentioned in ancient texts.
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In Uttar Pradesh, Ganga Water Level Close To Danger Mark, Buildings Partially Submerged
Uttar Pradesh: Water level in river Ganga continues to swell due to heavy rainfall. Several buildings, villages, crop fields near the banks have been partially submerged under water.
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Give Water Or No Vote, Says Remote Village in Uttar Pradesh
A tiny village in Uttar Pradesh has refused to vote in the national election if they do not get permanent water supply. The village is in Sonbhadra, a district just 170 km from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi.
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"PM Tours World, No Time To Visit Villages In Varanasi": Priyanka Gandhi
In five years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not find time to visit a single village in his constituency Varanasi, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said today at a rally in Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh in her campaign for next month's national election.
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CRPF Soldier From UP Killed In Pulwama Was Helping Mother Fight Cancer
Last year in July, 55-year-old Malti Devi , a resident of Bahadurpur village in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Chandauli, was told by doctors in neighbouring Varanasi she had cancer. It was a shock that would have been too much to bear, but her son, 33-year-old Awadhesh Yadav, a soldier with the CRPF, told her not to lose hope. He promised to help her rec...
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Father-Son Killed In Dynamite Blast In UP
A man and his son were killed in a dynamite blast set off by unidentified assailants in a Varanasi village in Uttar Pradesh early on Wednesday, police said.
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Narendra Modi In UP Live Updates: "Purvanchal Expressway In UP Will Change Face Of All Villages," Says PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his Uttar Pradesh visit today, his second to this part of the state in a just over a fortnight. During his two-day, PM Modi will visit Varanasi, Azamgarh and Mirzapur.
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Year After Notes Ban, Bank Workers Who Put In Long Hours Have These Regrets
Exactly a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's notes ban announcement, at the Union Bank of India in Jayapur - PM Modi's adopted village in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi - all seems well.
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In Varanasi Village, Experiment In Cashless Transactions Nosedives
In Misirpur -- the first cashless village in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi -- life has come a full circle for Asha Devi. The 70-year-old became a media celebrity last year, posing with and even using a Point of Sale Machine, better known as a swipe machine, egged on by eager bank officials.
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Children In Varanasi Villages Suffer From Malnutrition, Alleges PIL. High Court Seeks Reply
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court has sought a counter affidavit on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) highlighting malnutrition among the children of several villages in Varanasi district. A division bench of Justice Arun Tandon and Justice Ashok Kumar, in its order dated June 20, directed the Varanasi district magistrate to file his reply on a ...
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UP Elections 2017: 11 Villages Will Soon Cease To Exist. They Vote Today - In Anger
Today, Uttar Pradesh will conclude voting for its next government by selecting the final 40 of its 403 legislators. Star status is reserved for the ancient city of Varanasi because it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency.
