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Villagers await help from admn while battling floods in Bihar's Samastitpu
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Samastipur (Bihar) [India], July 24 (ANI): As rivers swell up due to heavy rains in Bihar, the rural areas in the Samastipur district of the state are battling floods yet again this monsoon season. The locals of the area are waiting for administrative help while shifting to safer places as t
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Andhra: Villagers lay thorny fence to protest against setting up of burial
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 24 (ANI): Villagers of Rangampeta in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district on Thursday laid a thorny fence as a mark of protest against revenue officials for intending to set up a burial ground for COVID-19 victims in the village.
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Man allegedly killed on suspicion of practising sorcery in Andhra
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Vizianagaram (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 23 (ANI): On suspicion of practising sorcery a person was allegedly killed by stone-pelting by the villagers in Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh.
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Villagers suspect COVID-19, stillborn baby thrown in canal
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 21 (ANI): A man in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh threw the body of his stillborn child in a canal after village elders did not allow him to perform the last rites in the village as they feared the baby had COVID-19 infection, police said on Tuesday
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Chhattisgarh: 25 villagers injured after Naxals thrashed them in Dantewada
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Dantewada (Chhattisgarh) [India], July 20 (ANI): In an outrageous incident in Dantewada, Naxals brutally thrashed 25 locals, including the mother of a newborn child, in the Parcheli village of the Katekalyan tehsil.
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Need to create awareness about COVID-19 protocols among rural population:
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 18 (ANI): A day after videos surfaced in which BJP MP, Shankar Lalwani was seen riding a horse during a poll campaign with villagers chasing him while flouting social distancing norms, Lalwani on Saturday said there is a need to create more awareness amo
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5 arrested after villagers tie up electricity department officials in Tela
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Medak (Telangana) [India], July 18 (ANI): Five persons were arrested for allegedly tying two electricity department officials to a pole after the officials visited the village to collect payment of electricity bills.
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J-K: Patient carried to hospital on makeshift stretcher in Doda
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Doda (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 16 (ANI): A patient was carried on a makeshift stretcher made of wooden logs by villagers to reach the hospital because of poor road connectivity in the Malwana area of Doda in Jammu and Kashmir on July 11.
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Thimmapur villagers held strike on National Highway in Telangana
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Bhongir (Telangana) [India], July 14 (ANI): Villagers of Thimmapur on Monday sat on strike at Warangal national highway against the alleged delay in the compensation for their lands in Baswapur Project.
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Villagers attack medical team in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], July 13 (ANI): A medical team that visited the coastal village of Poonthura of Thiruvananthapuram for COVID-19 swab collection on Friday were surrounded by villagers who hit on their car and manhandled the team.
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After Vikas Dubey's killing, cops meet Bikru villagers to dispel fear
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 11 (ANI): After gangster Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday, residents at his native Bikru village in Kanpur seem to be coming out of fear. They shared their concerns with police officials who had gone to meet t
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UP: Shivali villagers distribute sweets post Vikas Dubey's encounter, say
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 10 (ANI): The people in Shivali village in Kanpur on Friday distributed sweets after history-sheeter Vikas Dubey was killed in a police encounter.
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