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Punjab govt to build Jallianwala Bagh massacre memorial with soil from 13k
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], Feb 23 (ANI): The Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government will build a memorial on the occasion of the centenary commemoration of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre here with soil from all 13,000 villages of the state.
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China wants to make its remotest villages go cashless by 2020
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], February 22 (ANI): Going cashless is convenient, secure, and also the new driving force for the global economies to run. However, education and reach has a role to play in the adoption of digital methods of transactions.
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Gujarat: Farmers hold protest against bullet train project
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Navsari (Gujarat) [India], Feb 7 (ANI): Farmers from 29 villages in Navsari held a protest rally against bullet train project on Wednesday.
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Industrial pollutants surging cancer cases in villages near Sonipat
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 3 (ANI): People staying in the industrial periphery of Sonipat district's Saboli, Nathupur, Kundli, Akbarpur Barota Safiabad and Sersa are not only breathing deadly air but also paying heavily for polluted water due to industrial waste.
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One Lakh villages to go digital over next 5 years: Piyush Goyal
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, while presenting the Interim Budget 2019-20 in Parliament on Friday, said that the Government will make one lakh villages into Digital Villages over next five years. This, he said, will be achieved by expanding the Common Service
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Naxals set ablaze vehicles in Gadchiroli
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Gadchiroli (Maharashtra) [India], Jan 31 (ANI): Avenging the killing of their fellow naxals by police last year, naxals set ablaze vehicles in Kurkheda, Korchi and Potegaon villages of Gadchiroli district on Thursday during the ‘Naxal Week’ organised by naxals in the region.
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Varanasi all set to host Pravasi guests
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 20 (ANI): The holy city of Varanasi is all geared up to host the 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) beginning January 21with a dedicated 'tent city' with villages and cottages furnished with modern amenities, set up to welcome guests arriving here from 1
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Telangana CM pitches for development of villages
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Jan 11 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao instructed officials to organise a full-fledged training programme to the elected Sarpanches and Upa sarpanches in the ongoing village Panchayat elections to provide a total understanding to them in sh
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YSRCP to launch five-day campaign tomorrow, to cover 1700 villages
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Dec 2 (ANI): YSR Congress party will be commencing its five-day campaign 'Ninnu Nammam Babu' in 175 Assembly constituencies in the state from January 03. The campaign is touted to be a part of the ongoing Praja Sankalpa Yatra lead by YSRCP Chief YS Jagan M
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NGO makes sanitary pads from old clothes for tribal women
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Dec 18 (ANI): In a bid to provide a hygienic life to tribal women who cannot afford high-priced sanitary napkins, a Pune-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) makes sanitary pads out of old clothes and distributes them to women residing in nearby tribal vil
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KCR urges people to concentrate on development of villages
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Dec 17 (ANI): Exhorting people to concentrate on the development of villages, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has stated that the state and the country can only develop if the villages are developed.
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Meerut: After Bulandshahr clashes, cops ask locals to pledge against cow-s
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Dec 15 (ANI): Two weeks after clashes erupted in Bulandshahr over alleged cow slaughter, police in Meerut are making villagers take a pledge against cow-slaughtering by holding meetings in villages.
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