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A total of 874 committees will distribute the kits in rural areas under eight primary health centers in developmental block areas of VaranasiVARANASI With the help of monitoring committees, the distribution of Covid-19 medicine kits began in Varanasi on Saturday as a preventive measure to check the third wave of Covid-19, said additional chief medical officer (ACMO), Dr Sanjay Rai. District magistrate (DM) Kaushal Raj Sharma had procured a large quantity of Covid medicines for the city from the government and monitoring committees had been roped in to distribute the medicine kits, he said. “A total of 874 committees...

<p>Wednesday March 08, 2006,Lucknow: Hours after the blasts in Varanasi, a suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militant was shot dead in an encounter with the police in Gosaiganj area on the outskirts of the city early this morning.</p> <p>Police identified the militant as Salar alias Doctor and did not rule out his involvement in yesterday's blasts at the Sankatmochan temple and Cantonment Railway station in Varanasi, which claimed at least twenty lives.</p>

At least 15 people have been killed in three bomb explosions in the northern Indian pilgrimage city of Varanasi. At least 60 others were injured, police said. The first blast occurred at a Hindu temple and was followed by two more at the main railway station.