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The protest against the appointment of Firoze Khan in front of the Vice Chancellor’s residence.

Communalising the BHU campus

Students at Banaras Hindu University, who are targeting a Muslim professor appointed to teach Sanskrit and a university official who performed her dut
Purnima S. Tripathi, In Varanasi
VARANASI, UTTAR PRADESH, 10/01/2017: VARANASI DEMONETIZATION -BANARSI SAREE WEAVERS : (to go with Omar Rashid's Item): The traditional Banarasi and Chanderi sarees are done with lot of hard work and skillful work using the silk and cotton yarn at one of the weaver's handloom factory at Varanasi. The saree making is a cottage industry for about 1.2 million people associated directly or indirectly with the hand loom silk industry of the region around Varanasi encompassing Gorakhpur, Chandauli, Bhadohi, Jaunpur and Azamgarh districts. Photo Rajeev Bhatt

Changing mood

The informal mechanism of textile trade in Varanasi often means that traders pay GST on goods they have sold on credit.
AKSHAY DESHMANE in Varanasi
NEW DELHI, 06/01/2017: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP president Amit Shah during the BJP National Executive Meeting, in New Delhi on Friday. Photo: V. Sudershan

Communal twist

The Bharatiya Janata Party plays the communal card in Uttar Pradesh, indicating that desperation has begun to consume the party as the Assembly electi
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN,in Lucknow,Allahabad,Varanasi
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