Kalaburagi (Karnataka) [India], June 13 (ANI): Migrant labourers, who returned from Maharashtra's Mumbai to their villages in Karnataka, have been given employment by the local administration, under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Act (MGNREGA) scheme.
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) [India], June 13 (ANI): With summer at its peak and amid the COVID-19 crisis, villagers of Pakhnachua, Dantewada, faced with an acute water crisis are forced to drink contaminated water from the underground water source.
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 13 (ANI): Eighty-four-year-old Nanjammal grows vegetables in her kitchen garden at Thoppampatti village here in Coimbatore and distributes vegetable saplings among villagers free of cost, in a bid to boost the culture of kitchen gardens.
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], June 12 (ANI): In a move to crack down on illicit liquor trading and smuggling, Rupnagar police on Friday seized the biggest ever cache of illicit liquor in the tough forest terrain of Majri and Dabt villages of Himachal Pradesh, and arrested five people.
Tinsukia (Assam) [India], June 12 (ANI): Many farmers in Tinsukia district of Assam on Friday claimed that their crops are being damaged with droplets of condensate falling on it in villages near the site of the oil well fire at Baghjan here.
Bhilwara (Rajasthan) [India], June 12 (ANI): A panther was allegedly electrocuted to death at Rampuria village in Kareda area of Bhilwara district, Rajasthan, last night.
Badrinath (Uttarakhand) [India], June 12 (ANI): Devotees from Mana and Bamni villages of Chamoli district offered prayers at Badrinath Temple on Thursday as the district administration allowed them to visit the temple.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 11 (ANI): The Chamoli District Administration has allowed people from the nearby villages of Mana and Baman to visit Badrinath Temple amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh) [India], June 11 (ANI): Residents of Khursekla village in Manpur of Rajnandgaon district constructed a 3 km long road on their own by giving 'shramdaan' (voluntary labour).
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 10 (ANI): Locust swarms attacked villages here in Prayagraj, following which measures were taken to keep the pests at bay.
Chhota Udepur (Gujarat) [India], June 10 (ANI): A female leopard, which fell into a well in Runvad village of Chhota Udepur district earlier on Wednesday, was rescued.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 10 (ANI): The Odisha Government on Tuesday added 888 new villages in and around Micro Project Areas, to the list of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) and set up three new Micro Projects at Dhenkanal, Jajpur and Keonjhar.