The tribals of Madrebu village of Anantgiri Mandal in Visakhapatnam district staged a protest by travelling on horses through the forests to demand road facilities to their villages on Sunday.
Birnagar, a small village near the bank of river Ganga in Malda, has lost majority of its houses due to heavy rains and there is no dam or barrage over the river.
The Indian Army evacuated a critical patient from a remote village near the Line of the Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, officials said on Sunday.
A mentally sick was beaten to death on Saturday following an alleged sacrilege incident at Gurdwara Sahib Baba Bir Singh in Bandala village of Ferozepur, according to police.
In his complaint filed at the KR Nagar police station in Mysuru district, the man said his mother worked as a housemaid at HD Revanna's home for six years before returning to her village, where she worked as a daily wage labourer.
"Today, every Odia is thinking about why is their state lagging so much. It has been 26 years but villages in Odisha do not have access to drinking water. Fields in Odisha do not have water for irrigation. Schools in Odisha do not have teachers...Government hospitals do not have doctors. Odi
With most of their groundwater resources already depleted, the villagers have no choice but to limit their daily water usage. They are resorting to collecting water in utensils placed under cots for bathing, and then reusing the same water for washing.
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team visited Rajbari area of Sandeshkhali on Thursday to probe land grabbing allegations against Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shahjahan.
District Collector, Ajmer, said, "As the polling officers had misplaced some election related documents, polling is being conducted again at polling booth number 195 in Masuda Vidhan Sabha region in Nandasi village, Ajmer."
"The biggest issue here is potable water. PM Modi gave a call for 'har ghar nal se jal' and the people of UP benefited from this scheme but it was not implemented here in West Bengal. People in villages are forced to drink filtered sewage water. The state government did not do anything to pr