Village
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90-year-old woman claims to have encounter with ‘Yamraj’, says documents of her death wasn’t found in ‘parlok’
India | Jul 31, 2016, 12:37 PM ISTIn a shocking incident in Uttar Pradesh that seems to be a part of some mythical tale, a 90-year-old woman was found alive just before her body was to be taken for the funeral procession
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Woman mortgages 'Mangalsutra' for building toilet at home, becomes ambassador of sanitation programme
India | Jul 18, 2016, 09:42 PM ISTSasaram: 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, 03:52 PM ISTBeijing: 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, 01:17 PM ISTAhmedabad: 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 AM ISTBadi (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
National | Apr 25, 2016, 08:53 AM ISTJamshedpur: 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 | Jan 10, 2016, 04:19 PM ISTBhopal: 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 | Jan 04, 2016, 07:19 PM ISTPatna: 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 | Dec 24, 2015, 04:24 PM ISTNew 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 | Jul 05, 2015, 09:57 PM ISTGuwahati: 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 | Jul 02, 2015, 10:37 AM ISTSrinagar: 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 | Jan 03, 2015, 11:08 AM ISTNew 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
National | Dec 04, 2014, 06:14 PM ISTNew 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 | Oct 12, 2014, 01:12 PM ISTBijnor (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 | Jun 01, 2014, 05:08 PM ISTLucknow: 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 | Apr 28, 2014, 04:17 PM ISTKhagaria, 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 | Sep 14, 2013, 09:57 PM ISTMuzaffarnagar: 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 | Aug 29, 2013, 06:16 PM ISTMuzaffarnagar: 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 | Jul 09, 2013, 05:33 PM ISTAizawl, 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 | Jan 13, 2013, 07:54 AM ISTBallia, 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