A view of the flex board erected by the local people near the Santhi Bridge at Mlamala in Idukki. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT After a long wait, Mlamala village in Idukki has finally attained proper road connectivity with the outside world after the construction of two bridges, thanks to a group of high school … Read more
Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi at the Muthanad Toda Mund in Udhagamandalam on Friday. | Photo Credit: M. SATHYAMOORTHY Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi danced with members of the indigenous Toda community at the Muthanad Mund near Udhagamandalam on Friday. Mr. Ravi, who came to the Toda village along with his wife Lakshmi Ravi, paid … Read more
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Village defence guards on Sunday opened fire, observing suspicious movement in a village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said. No one was injured in the firing that took place around 4 a.m. in upper Dhangri, a village where terrorists killed seven persons in an attack early this year, officials said. The VDGs fired … Read more
The two-wheelers that were destroyed in the fire at Melapulam village in Ranipet on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Four two-wheelers were gutted in a fire in front of a house at Melapulam village, near Arakkonam town, in Ranipet on Thursday. The police suspect an electrical short circuit might be the reason for the … Read more
“Except on Sundays and holidays, there are hardly any visitors to this historic fort,” says Prema, an elderly woman who runs a tea stall right in front of the main gate of Bidanur fort at Nagara in Hosanagar taluk of Shivamogga district. On weekdays, few travellers stop at the fort for a peek inside before … Read more
Sandula Mangamma, who believes she is in her early 40s, has 10 children. Her eldest daughter Rajamma, in her 20s, one of six daughters, has two children herself. Mangamma’s youngest is Silakamma, 4. In another street, Ketchela Lingamma and Raghava Reddy have 11 children, of who three died; the parents aren’t sure of what illness. … Read more
Residents of Kavadigara Hatti blocked the bypass connecting NH-13 and NH-4 in protest against the district administration, following the death of 3 persons, on August 3, 2023. | Photo Credit: Sathish GT The drinking water supplied to Kavadigara Hatti in Chitradurga district in Karnataka was unfit for consumption, as per biological analysis of samples collected … Read more
The Communist Party of India-Marxist will organise a roundtable conference on the problems faced by village panchayats in the State, here on July 11. CPI(M) state secretary V. Srinivasa Rao, in a statement on Sunday, requested the State government to immediately release the 15th Finance Commission funds to the village panchayats. Also, the State government … Read more
Paintings on the walls of a house in Lalbazar village, West Bengal. File | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Election time is when the phrase ‘writing on the wall’ also assumes a literal meaning in West Bengal, with artists and wordsmiths joining hands to paint catchy slogans. But there is one village in the State where, … Read more