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India court allows plea seeking Hindu prayers at Gyanvapi Mosque

Court rejects Muslim organisation’s plea challenging request by Hindu women to pray at 17th-century Gyanvapi Mosque.

Al Jazeera · Sep 12, 2022

Gyanvapi Case: Varanasi court upholds maintainability of Hindu side's petition, next hearing on 22 Sep

The petition was filed by 5 women seeking permission for daily worship of Hindu deities whose idols are said to be located on an outer wall of the Gyanvapi mosque, which is located close to Kashi Vishwanath temple. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Sep 12, 2022

Gyanvapi case | Varanasi court says Hindu petitioners’ plea maintainable

District judge A.K. Vishvesha ruled that the Hindu ‘plaintiffs will have right to prove their averments by cogent evidence’, as the next hearing is slated for September 22

The Hindu · Sep 12, 2022

Corruption was in genes of previous govts: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath

VARANASI: Stating that corruption was in the genes of the previous state governments, chief minister Yogi Adityanath said in Jaunpur on Friday that the government's fight against corruption will continue and the wealth accumulated by "seven generations" of the corrupt will be acquired and used for the benefit of the…

The Times of India · Sep 9, 2022

SC asks Centre to file response in 2 weeks on pleas challenging Places of Worship Act

The court's readiness to test the law is significant considering the recent happenings in courts in Delhi, Varanasi, Mathura and the SC which probe the boundaries of the Act

The Hindu · Sep 9, 2022

UP: Passenger lands Varanasi with more than half kg gold inside his rectum after four hour long flight

LUCKNOW: For the second time in the current calendar year, a passenger landed in Uttar Pradesh with more than half kilograms of 22 carat smuggled gold concealed inside his rectum.

The Times of India · Aug 31, 2022

Two killed, five children feared drowned as boat engaged in flood relief operation capsizes in UP's Ghazipur

VARANASI: Two persons died while five children were missing after a boat engaged in Ganga flood relief operations capsized due to alleged overloading near Athahatha village under the limits of Revatipur police station in Ghazipur district late Wednesday afternoon.

The Times of India · Aug 31, 2022

Uttar Pradesh: Allahabad HC asks ACS (home), ASI DG to file reply in Gyanvapi case

PRAYAGRAJ: Hearing a case relating to Gyanvapi mosque, the Allahabad high court on Tuesday directed UP’s additional chief secretary (home) to file his personal reply on behalf of the state government in the matter within 10 days.

The Times of India · Aug 30, 2022

Modi chief architect’s Pune riverfront project faces scrutiny

In 2015, the Pune Municipal Corporation, then run by Nationalist Congress Party, invited bids to clean up and “rejuvenate” the polluted Mula and Mutha rivers. The riverfront development project, the PMC said, would cut the risk of flooding in the rivers and beautify stretches of their banks totalling 44 km.…

Newslaundry · Aug 29, 2022

Varanasi: Police nab Rs 300 cr financial scam’s mastermind Arunesh Sita, his aide

VARANASI: Crime branch of Varanasi police commissionerate succeeded in arresting Rs 300 crore financial scam’s mastermind Arunesh Sita from Lucknow while his close aide Bal Chand Chaurasia was nabbed from Ballia.

The Times of India · Aug 28, 2022