A water taxi service is all set to be launched in the Ganga in Varanasi from June 15.

In their complaint, parents of minor boy, aged around 11, informed police that Singh dwelt in their colony of Jaunpur city area.

Three persons including a girl, whose marriage was scheduled on Sunday, her lover and cousin brother were killed when their motorcycle collided with a truck near Sumatia village under the limits of Jigna police station in Mirzapur district on Saturday night.

The management of Tilakdhari Post Graduate College in Jaunpur on Sunday suspended with immediate effect history department in charge Dr Pradeep Singh, who was caught on camera seeking sexual favour from a girl student, a video of which taken by the girl herself was viral.

Among those held in the crackdown last week was alleged mastermind Sikandar from Barabanki. The police are now looking for those whom they had allegedly approached and managed to convert.

Don Abu Salem's nephew Mohammad Arif and two others were nabbed by Azamgarh police in a case of extortion and land grabbing using forged documents. A resident of Chakla Paharpur of city Kotwali area of Azamgarh, Shabana Parveen lodged a complaint against Arif and her two relatives, Hena and her husband Salman, accusing them of using fake documents to grabbing her land and demanding extortion money.

According to reports, the girl herself recorded the conversation and uploaded it on social media to expose the teacher. Soon the video went viral on social media platforms showing the professor repeatedly asking the girl for favours and she politely denies.

A Banaras Hindu University faculty member, Jagadeesh Pillai, has entered the Guinness fifth time from Varanasi.

The Mirzapur police has arrested Arif, Imroj Khan and Sahabuddin of Sultanpur district on the charges of gang rape of a married woman, her unlawful conversion and threatening and blackmailing her husband with her obscene video clips.

Varanasi district judge Ajay Krishna Vishvesha on Monday ruled that seven civil cases related to Gyanvapi dispute, which are of the same nature and were transferred to his court from other courts in Varanasi, will be clubbed together and heard jointly by his court.

District judge Ajay Krishna Vishvesha ruled on Tuesday that eight civil cases related to the Gyanvapi dispute would be clubbed together and heard jointly by his court. These cases are of the same nature and seven of them were transferred to his court from other courts in Varanasi, while the main case, involving the petition seeking permission to worship Shringar Gauri and other deities in the Gyanvapi compound, was already being heard by the district court as per the Supreme Courts directives.

The Varanasi district court on Tuesday ordered that all the seven cases related to Gyanvapi will be heard together. All the seven cases related to the Gyanvapi case will now be heard simultaneously, Varanasi district judge ordered.

The Gyanvapi mosque management committee, Anjuman Intezamia Masajid (AIM), on Monday filed its reply to the pleas seeking scientific investigation of the entire mosque compound, saying the three applications filed by nine plaintiffs were not maintainable as the Supreme Court had stayed the Allahabad high court order of May 12 to conduct a scientific survey of the purported 'Shivling' found in the complex.

At least four persons drowned when a boat with 30 people, mostly women and children, capsized in river Ganga near Maldepur area of Ballia district on Monday morning. Many families had gathered at Maldepur ghat to perform 'mundan' of their children. The boat is said to have capsized due to overloading.