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U'khand: No girl born in 132 villages of Uttarkashi district in three mont
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand) [India], July 21 (ANI): At a time when the Central government has been aggressively promoting its 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' scheme, sex ratio at birth data from 132 villages in Uttarkashi district reveal that no girl child was born in these areas in the last three mo
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J-K: Community bunkers being built for safety of villagers near Indo-Pak b
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 21 (ANI): In order to ensure the safety and security of people living in villages close to the India Pakistan border, community bunkers are being constructed to provide them shelter during the cross-border firing. These bunkers are being constructed
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Assam: Over 600 villages affected by floods in Barpeta district
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Barpeta (Assam) [India], July 20 (ANI): More than 600 villages here have been affected due to floods triggered by heavy rains in the state.
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MP: School children in Umaria struggle to cross river through broken bridg
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Umaria (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 20 (ANI): Children of Dadraudi, Kodar, Bartarai and other villages here struggle to cross a river through a damaged bridge to reach their school.
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Rajasthan: DM bars people from going near border in Sri Ganganagar
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Sri Ganganagar (Rajasthan) [India], July 19 (ANI): Ahead of the Independence day, people living in border villages here have been barred from going to the lands near the India-Pakistan international border in the dark hours, go atop water towers or make calls to the neighbouring country from
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Flood situation in Assam remains grim, hundreds of villages affected
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Dibrugarh (Assam) [India], July 18 (ANI): Floodwaters have started receding in parts of Assam but the situation continued to remain grim on Thursday in several districts of the state with hundreds of villages still affected.
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Massive rural sanitation drive by NMCG helps clean Ganga
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Haridwar, Uttarakhand [India], July 18 (ANI): Few miles from Haridwar city, Ajitpur is one among 4,465 villages located on the Ganga river basin which have been identified by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) as part of its Ganga Rejuvenation plan.
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Digital Village Pilot project' covering 700 gram Panchayats, says R S Pras
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is implementing a 'Digital Village Pilot project' covering 700 gram Panchayats or villages with at least one gram Panchayat or village per district per state/union territory, Electronics and IT Minister
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Overflowing Kamla river inundates several villages in Bihar's Darbhanga di
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Darbhanga (Bihar) [India], July 15 (ANI): The overflowing Kamla river due to heavy rains has left scores of villages inundated in the district, disrupting normal life like anything.
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Torrential downpour, rising Brahmaputra wreak havoc in Assam
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Dispur (Assam) [India], July 15 (ANI): Torrential downpour in the state of Assam continued to wreak havoc on Monday, causing the flooding on National Highway 37 and affecting 200 villages in Morigaon district alone due to the rising water levels of river Brahmaputra.
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Bahraich: Villagers organise havan as rivers swell, authorities pull up so
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 15 (ANI): After several villages submerged into the River Ganga, locals of affected areas gathered at the riverbank on Sunday to perform special prayers pleading the river goddess to return.
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Bihar: Villages in Darbhanga, Madhubani flooded; locals allege govt inacti
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Darbhanga (Bihar) [India], July 14 (ANI): Several villages in Darbhanga and Madhubani districts of Bihar have been flooded following incessant downpour in parts of the state.
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