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20/07/2022

Budget Flight From Varanasi-to-Ahmedabad Varanasi: SpiceJet, Indian low-cost carrier, has announced a flight from Varanasi to Ahmedabad from July 22. The budget airline SpiceJet has announced the launch of 26 new flights between metro cities with tier-2 towns under the government's regional connectivity scheme, while others will be additional flights to already existing routes. Some of the new flights are part of the state-subsidized UDAN scheme, which promotes air links to tier-2 and -3 cities....

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18/07/2022

Apex-Court to Hear-Plea for-Worship Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain filed a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India in the Supreme Court to allow the worship of the Shivaling stated to be found in the premises of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi during its survey by a court-appointed commission. The Supreme Court agreed to list the matter on July 21....

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17/07/2022

INS-Sindhudhvaj Decommissioned After 35-Years New Delhi: INS Sindhudhvaj bid adieu to Indian Navy on Saturday, serving for a glorious period of 35 years. Vice Adm Biswajit Dasgupta Flag Officer Commanding -in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command was the Chief Guest for the ceremony. The Decommissioning event was attended by 15 of the former Commanding Officers including Cmde SP Singh (Retd), the Commissioning CO and 26 Commissioning crew veterans....

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17/07/2022

Training-Programme Concludes at IIT-BHU Varanasi: A seven-day training program on ‘Advanced Instrumental Techniques’ organised by the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) and Indian Institute of Technology ISM, Dhanbad, Jharkhand under the aegis of DST and STUTI scheme, concluded in the Civil Engineering Department on Sunday. It was a collaborative programme of IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and IIT (BHU) Varanasi. Inaugurating the program, Prof....

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16/07/2022

BHU-VC Interacts with Students Varanasi: The Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University Prof. Sudhir Kumar Jain said that BHU will do all that is required to provide best of the facilities and opportunities to its students. Addressing the students of the varsity in a fully packed Swatantrata Bhawan on Saturday, Prof. Jain said that his administration is constantly working to ensure the best of campus life and learning experience for the students....

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BHU-VC Interacts with Students. This was the first formal interaction of the Vice-Chancellor with students since assuming charge.

16/07/2022

PM inaugurates Bundelkhand Expressway New Delhi: The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated Bundelkhand Expressway at Kaitheri village in Orai tehsil of Jalaun, Uttar Pradesh. UP Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, State Ministers, People’s representatives were among those present on the occasion. Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister recalled the glorious tradition of hard-work, valor and cultural richness of Bundelkhand region....

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15/07/2022

BHU Improves its NIRF-Ranking Varanasi: Banaras Hindu University has climbed up India Rankings 2022 by National Institutional Rankings Framework in the Medical, Dental and Law categories. The rankings were announced by the Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan in New Delhi on Friday. As per the rankings, BHU’s Institute of Medical Sciences has been rated India’s 5th best institution for medical education with a score of 68.12....

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BHU Improves its NIRF-Ranking in the Medical, Dental and Law categories. Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan announced the rankings.

14/07/2022

Launch of Dunagiri Curtain-Raiser New Delhi: Dunagiri, a Project 17A frigate, will be launched into the Hooghly River at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited, Kolkata by the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on July 15. Christened after a mountain range in the state of Uttarakhand, ‘Dunagiri’ is the fourth ship of P17A Frigates. These are follow-on of the P17 Frigates (Shivalik Class) with improved stealth features, advanced weapons and sensors and platform management systems....

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Launch of Dunagiri Curtain-Raiser. Dunagiri, a Project 17A frigate, will be launched into the Hooghly River on July 15.

14/07/2022

EBUS-Test-Facility Introduced in Varanasi Varanasi: With an aim of providing excellent and quality treatment facilities to the cancer patients, the Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Cancer Centre (MPMMCC) and Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital (HBCH) have now introduced new facility of ‘EBUS’ (endobronchial ultrasound) test to diagnose the lung cancer. It is very less time consuming and can identify the disease without causing any problem to the patients....

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EBUS-Test-Facility Introduced in Varanasi to diagnose the lung cancer. It is very less time consuming test.

14/07/2022

BHU Launches-Initiatives for Girl-Students Varanasi: With an aim to nurture and develop the leadership and life skills of students of Mahila Mahavidyalaya, the constituent college of Banaras Hindu University, Vice Chancellor Prof. Sudhir Kumar Jain has constituted the ‘Student Leadership and Life Skills Development Initiative Committee’. The committee headed by Prof. Lalita Vatta, Department of Home Science, MMV, will prepare a strategy and implement activities to develop soft skills, social skills, personal and professional skills in the students....

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BHU Launches-Initiatives for Girl-Students to nurture and develop the leadership and life skills in them.

11/07/2022

Prevent Cancer by Organic-Farming Prof. Kamakoti Veezhinathan of IIT-Madras, who is growing 55 variety of traditional rice in his very own organic farm in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, adopted organic farming after two of his cousins died because of cancer despite the fact that they were completely teetotallers, they had no bad habits. “The only thing that we could trace was pesticides, which they could have consumed in their food," said Prof....

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07/07/2022

PM gifts-multicores-projects to Kashi Varanasi: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of multiple projects worth over Rs. 1800 crores at an event at Dr Sampurnanand Sports Stadium, Sigra, Varanasi. Governor of Uttar Pradesh Anandiben Patel, and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath were among those present on the occasion. Addressing the gathering, the PM thanked the people of Uttar Pradesh and Kashi for the massive support that they gave in the recent elections....

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07/07/2022

PM Inaugurates Akshaya-Patra Kitchen Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Akshaya Patra Foundation’s new kitchen in Varanasi in the presence of UP Governor and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday. The state-of-the-art centralised kitchen supported by Westbridge Capital is spread over an area of 3 acres. It is Akshaya Patra’s 62nd kitchen in the country and fifth in Uttar Pradesh....

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PM Inaugurates Akshaya-Patra Kitchen, which will serve cooked food to over 100,000 children in 282 schools in Varanasi.

06/07/2022

PM to inaugurate NEP-Summit Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the three-day Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam organised by the Ministry of Education in association with University Grants Commission and Banaras Hindu University at Rudraksh Convention Centre on Thursday. The key highlight of the summit will be the adoption of the Varanasi Declaration on Higher Education which will showcase India’s extended vision and a renewed commitment to help achieve the goals of higher education system....

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PM to inaugurate NEP-Summit to adopt Varanasi Declaration on India's extended vision and renewed commitment for higher education.

04/07/2022

Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Varanasi on 7th July, 2022 to inaugurate and lay foundation stone of multiple development initiatives worth over Rs. 1800 crores. At around 2 PM, Prime Minister will inaugurate the Akshay Patra Mid Day Meal Kitchen at LT College, Varanasi, which has a capacity of cooking mid day meals for around one lakh students. At around 2:45 PM, he will visit the International Cooperation and Convention Centre-Rudraksh, where he will inaugurate Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam on implementation of the National Education Policy....

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PM to gift Rs-1800-crore-projects-to-Kashi. PM Narendra Modi will visit Varanasi on 7th July, 2022.

01/07/2022

New AOC-in-C Of Central-Air-Command Prayagraj: Air Marshal AP Singh assumed the appointment of Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) Central Air Command (CAC) on 01 July 2022. On assuming appointment, the AOC-in-C was presented a ceremonial Guard of Honour. He then laid a wreath at the CAC War Memorial, paying tribute to the brave Air Warriors who laid down their lives serving the nation....

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New AOC-in-C Of Central-Air-Command. Air Marshal AP Singh assumed the appointment of Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) CAC.

28/06/2022

IIT-BHU-Library Named After Alumnus Varanasi: The Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) has named its main library in honor Shreenivas Deshpande, an alumnus of 1948, in recognition of the generous contribution to the Institute by Dr. Desh Deshpande and Mrs. Jaishree Deshpande, facilitated through the IIT (BHU) Foundation. This was made possible through a generous gift of USD 1 Million (INR 7.5 Crores) to the IIT (BHU) Foundation by Boston-based renowned entrepreneur and philanthropist Desh Deshpande and his wife Smt....

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27/06/2022

Rocketry: The Nambi-Effect Screened New Delhi: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting organized a special screening of the upcoming film 'Rocketry: The Nambi Effect' at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi. The film is scheduled for a worldwide theatrical release on 1st July 2022. Rocketry: The Nambi Effect is an upcoming Indian biographical drama film based on the life of real-life scientist Nambi Narayanan, a former scientist and aerospace engineer of the Indian Space Research Organisation, who was accused of espionage in 1994....

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Rocketry: The Nambi-Effect Screened. Film is based on the life of former ISRO scientist, Padma Bhushan awardee Nambi Narayanan.