Village
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Real life 'Swades'! Software engineer shuns US job to start farming
News | Sep 07, 2020, 07:22 PM ISTBored from his monotonous job, a software engineer left his job to start farming in his village in Kalaburagi.
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Village level officer arrested for taking bribe in Rajasthan
Crime | Nov 14, 2019, 02:27 PM ISTVarsha Patidar, posted at Chandu Ji Ka Garha in Ganoda tehsil of the district, had demanded a bribe from the complainant Rohit Patel in a land mutation case. The complaint was verified and a trap was laid to arrest the accused on Thursday, the ACB spokesperson said
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Nodal officers to ensure farmers do not burn stubble in Haryana
India | Nov 12, 2019, 09:17 AM ISTNodal officers have been appointed across Haryana to ensure that farmers do not burn the crop residue, according to a statement issued on Monday. The Deputy Commissioner of every district has appointed one nodal officer per village for management of stubble burning
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Buffalo hit by tractor, man killed chasing driver
India | Nov 11, 2019, 01:12 PM ISTA young man was killed while trying to chase and stop the driver of the tractor trolley that knocked down a buffalo in Maal area of Lucknow
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Mysterious deaths: 6 children die in Odisha village in 2 weeks
India | Nov 10, 2019, 11:20 PM ISTThe children, aged between the age of six months and four years, died at Tamanpalli village under Kalimela block in the past two weeks, Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO) Ajay Kumar Baitha said.
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Man found dead inside govt school in Greater Noida
Crime | Sep 02, 2019, 03:50 PM ISTThe body was found inside the school in Chuhadpur village, under Eco Tech 1 police station limits.
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Adityanath to visit village in Sonbhadra district to meet families of clash victims
India | Jul 20, 2019, 08:29 PM ISTUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will on Sunday visit Ubbah village in Sonbhadra district to meet the families of 10 people who were killed in a clash over a land dispute, an official said on Saturday.
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From less-cash villages to cashless ones
India | Jul 12, 2019, 08:06 PM ISTSharma, from whom she bought candles and match box, runs a small shop, selling vegetables, mustard oil, kerosene and other items in exchange for food grains. On the same lines, Mukesh Jadoun of Ledor Khurd village has been running a small grocery shop for 10 years. He says it is common for residents to engage in barter system.
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Even after 72 years of independence, electricity has not reached Chhattisgarh's Trishuli village
India | Jun 13, 2019, 09:45 AM ISTThere are around 100 houses in Chhattisgarh's Trishuli village. Locals have written to the collector and requested him for electricity supply.
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Lok Sabha elections 2019 phase 2 polling | This village refrains from voting: Here’s why
Apr 18, 2019, 02:30 PM IST"Nobody has turned up to vote till now," ANI quoted polling official of booth number 41 as saying on Thursday which also happens to be the day when polling for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 is underway.
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Noida villages' body asks for job quota, panchayat system revival ahead of LS poll
Apr 05, 2019, 07:19 AM ISTThe voter turn out in Noida in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections was around 50 per cent, lesser than the overall 60 per cent across Gautam Buddh Nagar.
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Fire breaks out in Noida's Sarfabad village
India | Jan 04, 2019, 12:07 PM ISTThe fire broke out at Sarfabad village in Sector 73 at around 3.15 am, a senior officer said.
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Aaj Ka Viral: Powerful mudslide crashes through village in Switzerland
Aaj Ka Viral | Aug 10, 2018, 09:27 PM ISTAaj Ka Viral: Powerful mudslide crashes through village in Switzerland
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In a first, village goods, khadi product sales cross Rs 50,000-cr mark
May 01, 2017, 10:57 AM ISTIn what seems to be a result of the government’s push to promote village industries and use of khadi products, the low-profile segment notched up sales of over Rs 50,000 crore for the first time.
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Watch: Lions caught on camera roaming freely on village streets in Gujarat’s Amreli
India | Mar 07, 2017, 12:57 PM ISTA spine-schilling video captures three lions roaming around freely on the streets of Gigasan village in Amreli district of Gujarat.
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Lanura beats cash crunch, becomes first village to go cashless in J&K
Dec 18, 2016, 08:26 PM ISTBeating the cash crunch going on in our country post demonetisation, a village in central Kashmir's Budgam district has become the first in the state to go 'cashless'. Lanura village, about 30 kms from
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AP village adopted by Sachin Tendulkar goes through complete transformation
Cricket | Nov 16, 2016, 05:25 PM ISTThe past two years have seen a near transformation for Puttamrajuvari Kandriga village in Andhra Pradesh with being "Open defecation free" one of its greatest feats. The reason that makes this tenure of two years
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Not for the movie sets: When Nawazuddin Siddiqui did farming (See Pics)
Bollywood | Sep 20, 2016, 06:06 PM ISTBollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui comes from a humble background. Life of the small town boy from UP changed after he became an actor, but even after giving memorable performances in films like 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan', 'Kick'
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‘Sonu Moge wala’: ‘Dabangg’ actor planning to adopt this village in Punjab
Bollywood | Sep 15, 2016, 06:41 PM ISTSonu Sood is reportedly planning to adopt a village named Bahona in his home state Punjab.
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Happy Teachers Day! All you need to know about Karnataka’s Inchal village, where every house has a teacher
India | Sep 05, 2016, 04:57 PM ISTIn signs of attestation that teaching does continue to be one of the noblest professions till date, an inspiring statistic from a Karnataka village reaffirms the value of education and the importance that needs to