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No drinking water, no vote: Villagers caution in poll-bound MP
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Damoh (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Nov 2 (ANI): As the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh are inching closer, residents in Damoh's Jabera are staging protests over the lack of clean drinking water in the village.
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In a first, Naxal-dominated Tailem village to get polling booth
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) [India], Oct 31 (ANI): For the first time, people of Tailem of Katekalyan block will be casting votes in the village itself as the Election Commission is preparing to set up polling booths there. Voters of this village, located in the interiors and naxal dominated
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'No Road No Vote': Natives of Pura village threaten to boycott polls
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Ballia (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Oct 8 (ANI): Residents of Pura village of the district on Sunday staged a protest and threatened to boycott all upcoming elections demanding construction of roads in the village.
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Awareness campaign against straw burning by Parijat in UP
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 28 (ANI): To create awareness and sensitize farmers about environmental hazards of burning post-harvest agricultural residue, agrochemical company Parijat industries in association with department of agriculture conducted farmer training in the villages of Barabanki
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MP: Students cross forest area, river to attend school
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Harda (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Sept 5 (ANI): Due to unavailability of a secondary school in Mehgaon area of Madhya Pradesh's Harda district, around two dozen children of the village are forced to walk through a forested area and cross the Ganjal river to reach a school in Bori.
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UP: Man lynched over buffalo theft suspicion
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug 30 (ANI): In another heart-wrenching mob lynching incident, a man was allegedly beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly city by the villagers on the suspicions of cattle theft.
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Kerala floods: Health Ministry approves additional Rs. 18.71cr grant
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 24 (ANI): The Health Ministry, led by Jagat Prakash Nadda, on Friday, approved an additional grant of Rs. 18.71 crore under the National Rural Health Mission (NHM) to flood-devastated Kerala. The amount will be disbursed to the village health, sanitation and nutrition
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Odisha: Bamboo pole turns into makeshift bridge for locals
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], Aug 22 (ANI): For more than 3000 people in eight villages of Mayurbhanj district in Odisha, life hangs on a bamboo bridge - the only means of connectivity between the villages and parts of the district.
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Clean drinking water to all households by Diwali: Telangana CM
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Aug 1 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday held a review meeting on Mission Bhagiratha and instructed the officials to make necessary arrangements for supplying clean drinking water to all the villages by August 15 and to all house
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Century Real Estate adopts Channahalli Village in Karnataka
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Bangalore [India], July 3 (ANI-BusinessWireIndia): Century Real Estate (CREH) has recently adopted Channahalli village near Chikkajala in Karnataka as its flagship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative. The objective of the initiative is to work towards infrastructural and socioec
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Child not born in 'cursed' MP village for 400 years
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Rajgarh (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 10 (ANI): Out of the belief that the village is cursed, women in a Madhya Pradesh village have not given birth to a child in the village for around 400 years.
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Villagers migrate after local admin denies use of loudspeakers at shrine
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 10 (ANI): Families in Uttar Pradesh's Garabpur are migrating from the village by putting their houses on sale, after the local administration denied to grant them permission to use loudspeakers permanently at a local shrine.
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