Sikkim's lone pick for the Padma Shri this year, 98-year-old Tula Ram Upreti, from Assam Lingzey village in Pakyong district, has not only been associated with organic farming for the last eight decades but has also been championing the practice.
A Siddi tribe woman from Jambur village of Junagadh, Hirbai Ibrahim Lobi, has been honoured with the Padma Shri award, the fourth-highest civilian award by the government of India.
Delhi Jal Board has decided to connect each household in Wazirabad GOC with a house service connection pipe. About 30,735 domestic sewer connections will be added here. With this, about 2.03 lakh people of 12 unauthorised colonies and 3 villages of Wazirabad will get relief from sewerage iss
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar visited two blocks of Bhojpur district during his Samadhan Yatra. On 19 January, CM Nitish's program was organized in Tirthakoul village of Sandesh block. Deputy CM and district in-charge minister Tejashwi Yadav was also present with him.
The festival which displayed the harvested organic oranges from the village, as well as handicrafts, was inaugurated by K. Neibu Sekhose, the Additional Director of the Department of Rural Development in Nagaland.
West Bengal's BJP leader and national general secretary of BJP' youth wing Raju Bista on Monday visited an Indo-Bangladesh border outpost at Phansidewa as part of the Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM)'s 'Border Village Sampark'
The death toll in the Siwan hooch tragedy due to consuming spurious liquor in Bala Village in Lakari Nabiganj of Siwan district in Bihar rose to five on Monday.
In a bid to ensure development in villages in the national capital, the Delhi government's Delhi village Development Board (DVDB) on Monday sanctioned 136 schemes, including for improving roads, drains, water bodies, community centres, parks, cremation centres, playgrounds etc, to be impleme
"I'm the only teacher in school," said Kishore Mankar, a school teacher who has been showing up every day on his bike for two years to teach just one student.