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All that ash: From pyre to ire, row erupts over Kashi's Masan Holi

VARANASI, March 8 -- The issue of celebrating Masan Holi with ashes from funeral pyres at Manikarnika Ghat is kicking up dust in Kashi with one side opposing the practice and the other supporting it. ... Read More


Empowering women, harbingers of agriculture technology to region

VARANASI, March 8 -- Standing at the boundary of a wheat farm in Mehandi Ganj area of Rajatalab, around 15 km from Varanasi, Neetu Singh, a mother of three and a housewife, is spraying nano urea on th... Read More


For foreign guests, bustling Kashi no less than a spiritual experience

VARANASI, Feb. 11 -- Marcella d-Muinck, from Netherland, and her Indian husband Rishikesh Pundalik experienced a gush of spirituality amid a heavy crowd as they walked from one ghat to another in Vara... Read More


Bustling Kashi no less of a spiritual experience

VARANASI, Feb. 11 -- Marcella d-Muinck, from Netherland, and her Indian husband Rishikesh Pundalik experienced a gush of spirituality amid a heavy crowd as they walked from one ghat to another in Vara... Read More