Govt issues SOP for international flights on hub & spoke model; Air India to start trial in JuneIndia is set to launch a new hub and spoke aviation model. The civil aviation ministry has released standard operating procedures. Air Indi...
29 Apr, 2026, 10.20 PM IST
Budget 2026: 7 high speed corridor plan lifts Jupiter Wagons, IRFC and other railway stocks up to 3%Railway stocks surged up to 3% in a special Sunday trading session following the Union Budget 2026-27 announcement. Finance Minister Nirmal...
01 Feb, 2026, 12.39 PM IST
India's first subsidised scheduled cargo service over waterways launchedIndia launched its first subsidized cargo vessel service on National Waterways 1 and 2. The service connects Kolkata with Patna, Varanasi, ...
15 Dec, 2024, 04.05 PM IST
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Varanasi discusses temple, work, land acquisition...As the election season draws to a close on June 1, all eyes are on Varanasi, the ancient city that the BJP claims has had its "golden decad...
31 May, 2024, 11.48 AM IST
For ‘Smart’ Kashi, high-quality cow shelter planned“Varanasi performs poorly in city liveability index and infrastructure services,” says a VSCL document, which was reviewed by ET. “One of t...
08 Jan, 2018, 08.01 AM IST
3 years on, big projects see the light of day in VaranasiPM Modi to visit Varanasi next month to inaugurate two bridges on the Ganga and a Rs 305-crore trade facilitation centre for weavers.
29 Aug, 2017, 02.42 PM IST
UP Elections 2017: How BJP is striving hard to make Banaras role model for growthThe target is to spread the 'Varanasi Model' of development that can overlay the complex caste equations that fascinate the political tapes...
02 Sep, 2016, 12.30 PM IST
Maruti cars to be shipped on Ganga from Varanasi to Kolkata: Nitin GadkariCars are proposed to be transported from Varansi to Kolkata on National Waterway-I as a pilot run which would commence this month.
08 Aug, 2016, 04.02 PM IST
Suresh Prabhu infuses life into railways with Rs 1.5 lakh crore LIC loanThe railways had signed an MoU with LIC in March to meet its capital requirement for network decongestion and expansion by 2019.
02 Sep, 2015, 01.20 PM IST
Swachh Bharat: PM Modi's promise of cleaning & beautifying Varanasi doesn't appear to be an empty oneCleaning up and beautifying India’s spiritual capital was one of Modi’s biggest electoral promises to the people of Varanasi.
13 Apr, 2015, 03.58 PM IST
AAP, a 'confused party of defused netas': Nitin GadkariGadkari said the central government wants to make the national capital the most beautiful city of India as well as of the world and it was ...
02 Feb, 2015, 08.58 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi resigns from Vadodara Lok Sabha seat; retains VaranasiModi is likely to revive a regional development plan mooted by a BJP government in Uttar Pradesh in 1997-2000 when Rajnath Singh was the st...
29 May, 2014, 06.22 PM IST
Team Narendra Modi proposes 60 flyovers to decongest VaranasiSources in the government said that the team has reached out to the bureaucracy and sounded the bugle call on development initiatives for V...
20 May, 2014, 11.34 AM IST
Narendra Modi to emphasize on development of Varanasi's infrastructureModi is likely to revive a regional development plan mooted by a BJP govt in UP in 1997-2000 when Rajnath Singh, now party president, was t...
20 May, 2014, 10.32 AM IST
Narendra Modi supports giving Bhojpuri official statusThe attempt to speak in the same language as his prospective voters is not the only thing that vision document has on offer.
05 May, 2014, 05.30 AM IST
- Govt relaxes norms for setting up SEZ in small towns
In a significant move to spread out industrialisation and decongest big cities like Mumbai and Chennai, the government has drastically redu...
22 Jul, 2010, 08.55 PM IST
- Proposal to impose UDF at nine airports: Govt
The Government on Tuesday said the Airports Authority of India has proposed to impose User Development Fee (UDF) at nine airports in the co...
21 Jul, 2009, 03.40 PM IST