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  Woman mortgages 'Mangalsutra' for building toilet at home, becomes ambassador of sanitation programme

  India | July 18, 2016 21:42 IST

  Sasaram: In a praiseworthy move, a woman in Barahkhanna village mortgaged her 'Mangalsutra' to construct a toilet in her house. Recognising her effort, the Rohtas district administration made her the brand ambassador of total sanitation

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  Village where children climb cliffside ladder may get stairs

  World | May 27, 2016 15:52 IST

  Beijing: A village in China’s mountainous west where school children must climb an 800-meter (2,625-foot)-high bamboo ladder secured to a sheer cliff face may get a set of steel stairs to improve safety. The concerns

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  Gujarat: 121 more villages declared scarcity-hit, total at 1,115

  India | May 12, 2016 13:17 IST

  Ahmedabad: One hundred twenty-one villages in parched Saurashtra, north Gujarat and Kutch region were today declared as 'partially scarcity-hit' due to acute shortage of water owing to deficient rainfall in last monsoon, the state government

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  Mysterious case of MP’s 'suicide village' Badi!

  India | May 06, 2016 10:21 IST

  Badi (Madhya Pradesh): There have been large numbers of suicide cases in the Badi village of Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone district. This village is officially one of the country's 250 most backward districts and has reported

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  Play active role for village development, use Centre’s resources: PM Modi

  Politics | April 25, 2016 8:53 IST

  Jamshedpur: Rooting for stronger democracy at the grassroots level, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged the gram panchayats to make their contributions towards village development. Explaining them how to make full use of the current

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  4 IT youths bring free wi-fi to three remote villages in Madhya Pradesh

  India | January 10, 2016 16:19 IST

  Bhopal: Inspired by the Centre's flagship ‘Digital India' initiative, four IT professionals from Madhya Pradesh have enabled 3 villages in the state's Rajgarh district to have access to ‘free wi-fi'. “Taking a cue from Digital India

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  Purakothi village in Bihar becomes first 'smokeless' village of state

  India | January 04, 2016 19:19 IST

  Patna: Women in a village in Bihar are celebrating -- as all its 240 households have been provided with cooking gas connections and they no longer have to use firewood, cow dung cake or charcoal

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  Over 55,000 villages still without mobile connectvity Ravi Shankar Prasad

  India | December 24, 2015 16:24 IST

  New Delhi: As many as 55,669 villages are still without mobile telephony services, the government told Lok Sabha. Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the current level of rural and urban tele-density

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  Assam flood turns grim; over 65,000 affected

  India | July 05, 2015 21:57 IST

  Guwahati:  The flood situation in Assam turned grim over the past 24 hours due to incessant rains with over 65,000 people being affected in 125 villages across the state.Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said

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  Village head shot dead by gunmen in Kashmir's Pulwama

  India | July 02, 2015 10:37 IST

  Srinagar: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a village head in Pulwama district of south Kashmir's last evening, police said."At about 21:45 hrs, some unknown gunmen fired upon Mohd Yousuf Bhat outside his house at Wagan in

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  Salman Khan makes Kareena, Kabir, Himesh paint an entire village

  Bollywood | January 03, 2015 11:08 IST

  New Delhi: Salman Khan and his ‘being human' traits know no boundaries. And the recent to prove this is Salman's latest act of benevolence. During the shoot of his Kareena Kapoor Khan starrer ‘Bjarangi Bhaijaan'

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  Government to spend over Rs 2,100 crore for toilets in 1,649 villages

  Politics | December 04, 2014 18:14 IST

  New Delhi: Government will spend over Rs 2,100 crore to build toilets and sewage treatment plants in 1,649 identified villages situated along both sides of Ganga river in five states, the Lok Sabha was told

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  Man-eater tiger kills 10-yr-old in UP

  India | October 12, 2014 13:12 IST

  Bijnor (UP): A 10-year-old boy was killed by a man-eater tiger in the fields of village Baheri on the border of Vijay Singhpur forest range here, police said today.The incident took place last evening when

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  Sulabh to build toilets in all the houses of Baduan village

  India | June 01, 2014 17:08 IST

  Lucknow: Sulabh International will construct toilets in all the houses of Katra Shahadatganj village of Baduan, where two sisters were allegedly gang-raped and murdered last week while they went to relive themselves in fields.“Any woman

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  Ram Vilas Paswan's village still in lantern age

  India | April 28, 2014 16:17 IST

  Khagaria, Bihar: Believe it or not, there is no electricity in Lok Janshakti Party's chief Ram Vilas Paswan's native village. Although Paswan is rubbing shoulders with BJP's prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi, his native village

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  Muzaffarnagar: Tension mounts in village after youth stoned to death

  India | September 14, 2013 21:57 IST

  Muzaffarnagar: Tension prevailed in a village here today after an 18-year-old youth was stoned to death by unidentified persons, police said.The incident was reported in the district's Kitas village in the Ratanpuri police station area,

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  Prohibitory orders imposed in violence-hit UP village

  India | August 29, 2013 18:16 IST

  Muzaffarnagar: Prohibitory orders were imposed today in Kawal village of the district, where tension prevailed after a group of people indulged in violence and damaged many shops and houses.Taking out processions, carrying weapons and blocking

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  15 village council polls in Mizoram on July 23

  India | July 09, 2013 17:33 IST

  Aizawl, July 9 : Mizoram State Election Commission today announced that polling would be held on July 23 for the 15 village councils in the north-eastern part, adjoining Manipur, where the rural body polls could

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  Akhilesh gives Rs 20 lakh cheque to Delhi gangrape victim's father in his village

  India | January 13, 2013 7:54 IST

  Ballia, UP, Jan 12: Uttar Pradesh government will bear all educational expenses of the two brothers of the 23-year old Delhi gangrape victim.The government took the decision after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav visited the girl's

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  Bihar village bans women from using mobiles

  India | December 03, 2012 12:36 IST

  Patna, Dec 3: A village panchayat in Bihar has prohibited women from using mobile phones and imposed heavy fines on them if they violated the diktat, an official said Monday.The self-styled social reformers of Sunderbadi