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Tripura: Villagers agree to withdraw LS poll boycott after officials promi
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Dhalai (Tripura) [India], Apr 24 (ANI): Tribal villagers of Bhagirath Para, who had decided to boycott the Lok Sabha polls demanding basic amenities like clean drinking water supply, electricity, road connectivity, proper school facilities and fair price shop, withdrew their boycott after lo
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Maharashtra: Villages in Beed district face acute water shortage
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Beed (Maharashtra) [India], Apr 17 (ANI): Villagers from the Beed district are not getting enough drinking water in their area. The Babi village in the district is one such village, where villagers have to walk under the scorching sun for kilometres to get some drinking water as they face an
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Deprived of clean drinking water, North Bengal tea garden workers cry foul
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], Apr 16 (ANI): "We experience a severe scarcity of drinking water here throughout the year. However, the problem intensifies during the summer. Most of the wells dry up and all the families here rely on nearby taps as the only water source. Vote or no vote,
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'Did you vote for me?' asks Gujarat Minister to women protesting against d
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Rajkot (Gujarat) [India], April 15 (ANI): Gujarat Water Supply Minister and BJP leader Kunvarji Bavaliya questioned a group of women who were protesting about drinking water issues in their village, whether they voted for him or not in the last election.
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Songadh: Villagers near Ukai dam irked by water scarcity, unavailability o
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Songadh (Gujarat) [India], April 10 (ANI): With elections approaching and all political parties making big promises in their election manifestos, there exists a village in Songadh district where people still have to walk for kilometers to fetch clean drinking water.
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A dirty stream is the only source of water in this Assam village
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Dibrugarh (Assam) [India] Apr 9 (ANI): It has been over 70 years of Independence, yet, locals in this Assam village lack a source of clean drinking water, forcing them to use water from a dirty stream in the village.
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Kamal Hassan promises drinking water, houses, generation of jobs if voted
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Mar 29 (ANI): Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan has promised drinking water to all houses, a corruption-free government and generation of jobs, if his party is voted to power in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections and assembly bypolls in Tamil Nadu.<
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India, Bangladesh inaugurate 4 development projects via video conference
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India] / Dhaka [Bangladesh], Mar 11 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina, Monday jointly unveiled development projects in Bangladesh, through video conference on Monday.
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Arrangements at Kumbh Mela 'top class': Uma Bharti
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb 24 (ANI): Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Uma Bharti on Sunday hailed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for making "best arrangements" at the Kumbh Mela this year.
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Uma Bharti says BSP-SP alliance will benefit BJP in 2019 LS polls
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb 22 (ANI): Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Uma Bharti on Friday hit out at the alliance of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party and said it will benefit the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
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Water unavailability led to fainting; good that PM saw, says cameraman who
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Surat (Ahmedabad) [India], Jan 30 (ANI): K Ramoliya, the cameraman who fainted during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech here on Wednesday, said that he lost consciousness during the coverage of the programme due to unavailability of drinking water at the event.
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Hathras: 50 Youngsters to auction themselves on R-day to protest against w
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Hathras (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 26 (ANI): Fifty young people in Nagla Maya village in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district have, in a desperate measure, proposed to auction themselves to raise money to provide for drinking water in their village.
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