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“Spy” Jyoti Malhotra regularly visited Varanasi after her frequent trips to Pakistan, NIA to take her there for questioning

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2025

Jyoti Malhotra spent January and February of 2025 in Kashi before traveling to Kashmir and then Pakistan.

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Kashi draws 11.46 crore visitors in first quarter of 2025, number of people coming to the holy city booms after Kashi Vishwanath Corridor

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2025

As per the government data, in the first quarter of 2024, Kashi was visited by 2.56 crore people. This translates into an increase of around 8.89 crore domestic tourists in Q1 2025.

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Varanasi: Youth thrashed for touching girl inappropriately at Ganga Aarti claims he was targeted because he is Muslim, case handed over to ATS as...

OpIndia Staff - 1 May, 2025

It is suspected that the Muslim youth might have been involved in the molestation of other girls in Varanasi as well.

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6 mosques to be demolished in Varanasi’s Dalmandi area: Read details of the road widening project and how 100s of shops are set to...

OpIndia Staff - 18 April, 2025

Located about 100 metres away from the Kashi Vishwanath temple, the Dalmandi market area faces the problem of overcrowding and frequent traffic jams because of the narrow size of the road passing through it.

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Varanasi gang rape case: Further arrests stopped after claims by families of accused that victim was active on social media during her abduction and...

OpIndia Staff - 17 April, 2025

In a major development in the Varanasi gangrape case, Police Commissioner Mohit Agarwal has said that there will be no further arrests in the case until the probe is completed by a SIT

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Guinness World Record: Japanese man dribbling football for 2,000 km from Kolkata to Delhi reaches Varanasi

ANI - 17 April, 2025

Japanese national Nozomu Hagihara has arrived in Varanasi as part of his 2,000-kilometre journey dribbling a football across India.

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Drug addiction, luring young girls and sextortion: How the sordid rape case in Varanasi exposed a sinister gang operated from Continental Cafe

Aditi - 11 April, 2025

Gupta had a gang of 15 men who used to trap innocent girls, sedate them with drugs, sexually exploit them and record their videos to further blackmail them so that the gang members and their customers could keep exploiting them.

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Proposal to rename over 50 localities in Varanasi named after Mughals to be discussed in Municipal Corporation meeting

OpIndia Staff - 27 March, 2025

This comes days after Jagatguru Rambhadracharya came to Varanasi and supported changing the names of Muslim localities.

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Muslim shopkeepers flout government rules, sell meat near Kashi Vishwanath temple: Exclusive FIR details

OpIndia Staff - 13 January, 2025

The local administration stated that the accused shopkeepers had been issued notices to stop seeking non-vegetarian food in the 2 km radius of Kashi Vishwanath temple. The action was taken as the shopkeepers flouted the rules

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Varanasi: 13 BHU ‘students’ arrested for stirring unrest, trying to burn Manusmriti

OpIndia Staff - 27 December, 2024

The actions of some of the accused pupils are already under suspicion, according to ATS officials.

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