When his wife dies, he will wash the body with holy water ... ghats in the old city of Varanasi where corpses are cremated. One of them is the Manikarnika Ghat, the burning ghat.

A group of sex workers, known as 'Nagar Vadhus', performed a traditional dance around the burning pyres at Manikarnika Ghat ...

The name-changing bug has now bitten the Varanasi Municipal Corporation, which is planning to rechristen as many as 50 localities in the city, a majority of which have a substantial Muslim population.

Before this, organisers only had to seek permission from the civic body to organise programmes on the ghats and no fee was charged for it. (File) Varanasi Municipal Corporation public relations ...

Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh ... To ensure compliance, the civic body will first launch a public awareness campaign. "We have our vans that will move around the city to monitor the situation.