Yogi govt may soon rename Allahabad as Prayagraj

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September 12, 2017

Lucknow, Sept 12: After renaming 'Mughalsarai' railway station as 'Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar', chief minister Yogi Adityanath led-Uttar Pradesh government may soon rechristen Allahabad as 'Prayagraj'.

An indication to this effect was given by the office bearers of All India Akhara Parishad (AIAP), an apex body of Hindu seers and saints after their meeting with CM Yogi on Tuesday.

The AIAP president Mahant Narendra Giri said that the saints had proposed to the chief minister to rechristen Allahabad as 'Prayagraj'. ''A formal announcement in this regard will be made shortly,'' the Mahant said.

He said that the chief minister had assured the saints that the government would consider their demand. The saints said that renaming of Allahabad was essential to reflect the cultural heritage and religious importance of the place.

The AIAP also handed over the list of 14 ''fake'' babas to Adityanath and asked him to take action against those, who had made UP their home. ''He (Adityanath has assured action against fake babas,'' Narendra Giri said.

The AIAP also urged the chief minister not to allow such 'fake' babas to take part in the 'Ardhakumbha' (a religious congregation on the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers) scheduled to be held in Allahabad in 2019. A full fledged 'Kumbha' is held after every 12 years while an 'Ardhakumbha' is held after every six years.

Allahabad was known as 'Prayag' in the olden times. The word 'Prayag' means 'place of offerings' and it was given the name owing to the confluence of the three holy rivers there.

According to the historians, Mughal emperor Akbar had in 1575 given the town the name 'Illahabad', which in Persian meant 'place of god'. It later became Allahabad.

The centre had recently rechristened 'Mughalsarai', an important railway junction in UP's Chandauli district, after BJP ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyaya.

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Israeli forces invade southwestern Syria, set up checkpoint in Quneitra

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November 24,2025

Israeli forces have pushed over the Syrian frontier, erecting a checkpoint and stopping vehicles in the southwestern city of Quneitra, in yet another breach of the Arab country’s sovereignty.

The violation took place on Sunday, when the troops made their way across the border, setting up the outpost near the Ain al-Bayda junction in northern Quneitra, Syrian outlets reported.

According to the al-Ikhbariya paper, an Israeli detachment positioned itself at the junction, halting cars and conducting searches.

The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that three Israeli military vehicles then moved further into the northern countryside, deploying between the town of Jubata al-Khashab and the villages of Ofaniya and Ain al-Bayda. The agency added that a separate Israeli unit mounted a new incursion in the central region, approaching the villages of Umm Batina and al-Ajraf.

Residents said such activities have surged in recent months, pointing to Israeli advances onto farmland, leveling of extensive forested areas, arrests, and spread of mobile checkpoints.

The Israeli regime began markedly increasing its military aggression against Syria last year.

The escalation coincided with increasingly ferocious onslaughts throughout the country by the so-called Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Takfiri terrorist group, which the government of President Bashar al-Assad had confined to northwestern Syria. The HTS, however, managed to overthrow the government as the Israeli attacks would pummel the country’s civilian and defensive infrastructure.

Various reports have shown that, during the escalation, the regime conducted more than 1,000 airstrikes on the Syrian territory and over 400 ground raids into the south.

Following the collapse of the Assad government, Tel Aviv also widened its grip over the occupied Golan Heights by taking control of a demilitarized buffer zone, in defiance of a 1974 Disengagement Agreement. Earlier this month, senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visited the buffer zone, prompting expressions of alarm on the part of the United Nations.

The United States, the regime’s biggest ally, has, meanwhile, been fraternizing the HTS head Abu Mohammed al-Jolani amid the widely reported prospect of rapprochement with Tel Aviv.

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