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Rain Batters Gujarat, Lakhs Affected By Floods In Bihar, Andhra: 10 Facts
The flood situation in Bihar remained grim on Sunday with more than 80 lakh people across 16 districts affected. On the other end of the country, in Gujarat, several areas were pounded by heavy rain that swelled up rivers and put more than 100 dams on a high alert. Over 1,000 villages in 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh too have been affected by flood...
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Manipur Villagers, Living In Darkness Since Independence, Step Up Protest
Protests erupted in two interior villages of Manipur demanding electrification of the areas reeling under darkness since Independence.
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No Regrets, Says Statistician Who Quit Over Damning Jobs Report
PC Mohanan grew up in a village without electricity, studied statistics at a public university, and then spent more than three decades crunching numbers for the government. But in the past week, the mild-mannered official has been caught up in a political storm that has threatened to undermine Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government months before...
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No More Ghosts, Says Nitish Kumar As 1.39-Crore Bihar Households Power Up
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today announced that his government has extended electricity to all the 1.39 crore households in the state much ahead of the December 31 deadline, an achievement that will go a long way in empowering its residents.
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UP Villages Dream Of TV, Cold Drinks In Race To 100% Electrification
When electricity finally arrived four months ago in the Kachan village in Sonbhadra, the second largest district of Uttar Pradesh, 35-year-old Mumtaz Hussain bought a freezer and started a soft drink shop.
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No Power In This UP Village But Locals Say, Forced To Pay Electricity Bill
While the electric poles were set up in Uttar Pradesh's Karela Village 10 years ago, electricity is yet to reach the villagers.
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Worms In Food, No Electricity In Classes, Case Filed Against UP School
Uttar Pradesh Social Welfare Minister Gulabo Devi has ordered the registration of an FIR against two employees of a residential school in Sinhawali village in Sambhal after gross anomalies were found during an inspection.
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In Nitish's Bihar, a village's power cut has lasted 17 years
For three months in 1995, Afaur village in Bihar's Saran district had electricity. Villagers fondly talk about fans that worked light at night and watching television much like they would recount the fleeting visit of a celebrity. Fleeting it was. One day they woke up to no electricity and for 17 years they have lived without.
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Akhilesh, no electricity at this UP hospital for five years
Uttar Pradesh's failing healthcare system exposed once again. First there was the Babu Banarsi Das hospital in Bulandshahr where a ward boy and sweeper doubled up as doctors. They were filmed stitching up patients. Now Sardhana town's only primary healthcare centre which is the only hospital for 12 villages around it, has in its 5 years of existen...
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Rain Batters Gujarat, Lakhs Affected By Floods In Bihar, Andhra: 10 Facts
The flood situation in Bihar remained grim on Sunday with more than 80 lakh people across 16 districts affected. On the other end of the country, in Gujarat, several areas were pounded by heavy rain that swelled up rivers and put more than 100 dams on a high alert. Over 1,000 villages in 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh too have been affected by flood...
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Manipur Villagers, Living In Darkness Since Independence, Step Up Protest
Protests erupted in two interior villages of Manipur demanding electrification of the areas reeling under darkness since Independence.
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No Regrets, Says Statistician Who Quit Over Damning Jobs Report
PC Mohanan grew up in a village without electricity, studied statistics at a public university, and then spent more than three decades crunching numbers for the government. But in the past week, the mild-mannered official has been caught up in a political storm that has threatened to undermine Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government months before...
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No More Ghosts, Says Nitish Kumar As 1.39-Crore Bihar Households Power Up
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today announced that his government has extended electricity to all the 1.39 crore households in the state much ahead of the December 31 deadline, an achievement that will go a long way in empowering its residents.
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UP Villages Dream Of TV, Cold Drinks In Race To 100% Electrification
When electricity finally arrived four months ago in the Kachan village in Sonbhadra, the second largest district of Uttar Pradesh, 35-year-old Mumtaz Hussain bought a freezer and started a soft drink shop.
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No Power In This UP Village But Locals Say, Forced To Pay Electricity Bill
While the electric poles were set up in Uttar Pradesh's Karela Village 10 years ago, electricity is yet to reach the villagers.
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Worms In Food, No Electricity In Classes, Case Filed Against UP School
Uttar Pradesh Social Welfare Minister Gulabo Devi has ordered the registration of an FIR against two employees of a residential school in Sinhawali village in Sambhal after gross anomalies were found during an inspection.
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In Nitish's Bihar, a village's power cut has lasted 17 years
For three months in 1995, Afaur village in Bihar's Saran district had electricity. Villagers fondly talk about fans that worked light at night and watching television much like they would recount the fleeting visit of a celebrity. Fleeting it was. One day they woke up to no electricity and for 17 years they have lived without.
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Akhilesh, no electricity at this UP hospital for five years
Uttar Pradesh's failing healthcare system exposed once again. First there was the Babu Banarsi Das hospital in Bulandshahr where a ward boy and sweeper doubled up as doctors. They were filmed stitching up patients. Now Sardhana town's only primary healthcare centre which is the only hospital for 12 villages around it, has in its 5 years of existen...
