As the government gets ready to present its anti-rape Bill in Parliament, first arrest for stalking under the amended section of the Indian Penal Code was made in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Saturday. A Mumbai police team arrested a man accused of stalking a woman, even after she moved to Mumbai. ...
05:28 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Provincial Medical Services (PMS) Association on Thursday demanded the Uttar Pradesh government to take strict action those involved in the manhandling of doctors and vandalism at a hospital in Varanasi. ...
12:34 AM, Mar 08, 2013
Lucknow: The district administration has strongly opposed any action to release the accused in the 2006 Varanasi blasts, a move seen as a setback to the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party that had defended the "innocent Muslims being implicated in the blasts." The district magistrate and the senior superintendent of police of Varanasi have said, in a letter of the special secretary (law) dated December 14, after a careful study of...
01:05 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Lucknow: The eight-month-old Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Party (SP) government has been rapped by the Allahabad High Court for moving to release the accused of the 2006 serial bomb blasts in the temple city of Varanasi. A bench of justices RK Agarwal and RSR Maurya on Thursday observed: Today you are releasing them, tomorrow you may give them the Padma Bhushan. The court further said that whether those arrested were...
01:11 PM, Nov 23, 2012
The Chitrakoot Ramleela of Varanasi is the most famous and the oldest Ramleela of Kaashi. ...
08:55 AM, Oct 24, 2012
New Delhi: Amar Jyoti Kalita, the prime accused in the Guwahati molestation case, is expected to be produced in a court in Guwahati on Thursday. He was nabbed in Varanasi on July 23 after being on the run for 2 weeks. He was handed over to Assam police on transit remand. Earlier, Kalita was on Wednesday brought back to Guwahati from Varanasi by a special investigation team of Assam police....
09:13 AM, Jul 26, 2012
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday said that he was "very happy" that all the accused in the Guwahati molestation incident had been arrested. "We have dealt with the case very firmly," he added. Key accused in the case, Amar Jyoti Kalita, was arrested on Monday evening in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Kalita had reportedly surrendered at the Varanasi police station after reportedly having a word with the...
10:27 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Guwahati: The man who figured most prominently in the video that went viral showing a mob molesting a teenaged girl in Guwahati was finally arrested after being on the run for two weeks. Amar Jyoti Kalita surrendered on Monday. CNN-IBN has traced his movements across the country from the time of the incident. For days he was just a series of pictures and a grinning symbol of the ugliest molestation...
07:48 AM, Jul 24, 2012
Varanasi/ Guwahati: Amar Jyoti Kalita, the prime accused in the Guwahati molestation case, has been arrested in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Kalita reportedly surrendered at the Banaras Hindu University Police Chowki in Varanasi on Tuesday. DIG Varanasi Satish Ganesh said that a man claiming to be Kalita surrendered before the police on Monday afternoon. Ganesh said that Uttar Pradesh Police have contacted their counterparts in Assam to identify and verify the...
05:22 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Lucknow: Varanasi's famous Kashi Vishwanath temple will be given a major facelift and the salaries of the priests will be increased, the Uttar Pradesh government announced on Tuesday. After a meeting of the temple trust, Religious Endowments Minister Anand Singh said that other than making provisions for booking online 'darshan' of the deity, fibre glass roofs will also be installed at places where devotees stand in long queues to have...
10:02 PM, Jun 19, 2012
What is worse is that Rs 900 crore of the Ganga Action Plan have simply gone down the drain. It's also the place where the Ganga is at it's dirtiest. ...
05:03 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Experts point out climate change and flowing of sewage into the Ganga is affecting the river adversely. ...
12:07 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Varanasi: On the World Environment Day, CNN-IBN focuses on 'Saving the Ganga', a 45-day campaign that highlights how the sacred river is dying despite thousands of crores of rupees being spent to save it. CNN-IBN's special report shows how dams and pollution are killing the river in every state it passes through. CNN-IBN reached the ancient city of Varanasi, and found why the river is the most polluted there despite...
07:46 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Varun Sandesh's 'Chammak Challo', directed by Neelakantha, promises to be a love story with a difference. The film has been mostly done but for one song. The makers are planning to release the film soon. Neelakantha's penchant for novelty is well-known. It is to be seen if the director proves those who have opined that Neelakantha is not fit to make romances and romantic comedies wrong with 'Chammak Challo'. The...
11:51 AM, May 30, 2012
Guwahati: To travel across all 28 states of India and neighbouring Bhutan in a Tata Nano car covering around 25,000 kms is no easy task. Yet, this is being attempted by 62-year-old Kochi-based car enthusiast Thomas Chacko, who has so far covered 5,400 km in the small car and reached Guwahati on Saturday. Starting his journey from Mumbai on May 3, Chacko has so far travelled through Indore, Bhopal, Khajuraho,...
07:40 PM, May 20, 2012
Varanasi: For thousands of years, people have been thronging the ghats of the ancient city of Varanasi to offer prayers. It is here that the circle of life and death is completed. Cruising down the river Ganga, one reaches the ancient city of Varanasi... and one NGO has shown that all is not well with the river here. Once a week, volunteers from the Sankatmochan Foundation give the holy waters...
08:59 AM, May 04, 2012
Varanasi: A major fire broke out on Saturday night in an oil mill in Ashapur area of the district, triggering panic among locals, fire department officials said. "The massive fire broke out at Jhunjhunwala oil mill, setting off blasts in five oil tankers," Fire Officer Subhash Singh said, adding no casualty has been reported so far. Over a dozen fire tenders have been pressed into service to douse the raging...
02:22 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Aamir Khan was invited by the auto driver who drove him around town in 2009 when the actor was on an ad promotional tour. ...
09:55 AM, Apr 26, 2012
