Tag: Varanasi

Modi chooses Hindu holy city of Varanasi for elections

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has once again chosen to contest the country’s upcoming elections from the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, his...

Varanasi’s ‘Death Hotel’ is where Hindus go to die

They arrive in battered cars, on crutches and sometimes on a stretcher barely able to breathe -- but salvation is close for thousands of...