Varanasi Visitors

A 70-year-old French woman was allegedly beaten up and raped in Varanasi last night, the police said. The woman has been a regular visitor to the city since 1977. For the last 11 months, she had been staying in the city and working at a centre for specially abled children.

Varanasi was struck with a serious case of neighbour's envy last month when its representative in parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, laid the foundation stone for a state-of-the-art hospital in Gorakhpur in Eastern Uttar Pradesh.

A clutch of real-time sensors have been installed along the Ganges in Varanasi for monitoring water quality and the data would be soon made available to visitors as displays at the ghats, a scientist involved in the project said here.

On the lines of Berlin and London, Uttar Pradesh Tourism will launch a new scheme, 'Lucknow by cycle', for visitors by the end of this month and later in heritage cities of Varanasi and Agra.

Visitors and tourists to the Varanasi ghats and Lucknow's famed Bhool-Bhulaiyyan (maze) will be able to surf the net, thanks to wi-fi hotspots being created there and at other places in the state at nothing less than breakneck speed.

A 70-year-old French woman was allegedly beaten up and raped in Varanasi last night, the police said. The woman has been a regular visitor to the city since 1977. For the last 11 months, she had been staying in the city and working at a centre for specially abled children.

Varanasi was struck with a serious case of neighbour's envy last month when its representative in parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, laid the foundation stone for a state-of-the-art hospital in Gorakhpur in Eastern Uttar Pradesh.

A clutch of real-time sensors have been installed along the Ganges in Varanasi for monitoring water quality and the data would be soon made available to visitors as displays at the ghats, a scientist involved in the project said here.

On the lines of Berlin and London, Uttar Pradesh Tourism will launch a new scheme, 'Lucknow by cycle', for visitors by the end of this month and later in heritage cities of Varanasi and Agra.

Visitors and tourists to the Varanasi ghats and Lucknow's famed Bhool-Bhulaiyyan (maze) will be able to surf the net, thanks to wi-fi hotspots being created there and at other places in the state at nothing less than breakneck speed.