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More Landslides Likely In Papua New Guinea After 2,000 Killed Last Month
Further landslides will likely plague the area where part of a mountain collapsed onto a remote village in Papua New Guinea two weeks ago, New Zealand geological experts warned on Friday, as authorities ended search and rescue efforts.
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Toxic Water Plagues This Uttar Pradesh District, But It's No Poll Issue
It's been two decades and four Lok Sabha elections, but 50-year-old Sumariya Devi is yet to see politicians showing any interest in eradicating the curse of fluorosis that plagues her village in East Uttar Pradesh. A crippling disease caused due to the presence of excess fluoride in the ground water, it has left many among them with deformed teeth ...
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Uttarakhand Election 2017: Over 1000 'Ghost Villages' In State Make Migration Major Poll Issue
As Uttarakhand voted in its 4th assembly election on Wednesday, one of the key issues that plagued voters' minds in the hill-state was intra-state migration, which has led to a demographic drain from the hill-districts and spurred the creation of as many as 1,053 'ghost villages', uninhabited settlements, across Pauri, Tehri, Almora, Uttarkashi, Ch...
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Rio 2016: British Team Bring Own Plumber as Games Village Suffers From Problems
The British Olympic team, who are eyeing their biggest medal tally ever, have employed their own plumber as the Games Village continues to be plagued by infrastructure issues.
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Rio Olympics: Australia Boycott Games Village, Calls it Unsafe
Australia's Olympic delegation have boycotted the Olympic Games village in Rio de Janiero, calling it unsafe and not ready to lodge athletes
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9 Years Later, UPA's Flagship Scheme for Rural Poor Plagued by Lack of Funds
There isn't much to do for Pantho Munda, a resident in Angara village of Jharkhand's Ranchi district. He has spent 18 months working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, or MNREGA, building a well in the village. And he is still waiting for part of his payment.
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Struggling Liberia Creates 'Plague Villages' in Ebola Epicentre
To try to control the Ebola epidemic spreading through West Africa, Liberia has quarantined remote villages at the epicentre of the virus, evoking the "plague villages" of medieval Europe that were shut off from the outside world.
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Madagascar Unleashes Poisoned Rain to Break Locust Plague
The choppers swoop in, dumping insecticide over a plague-stricken village in Madagascar's stunning central highlands.
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More Landslides Likely In Papua New Guinea After 2,000 Killed Last Month
Further landslides will likely plague the area where part of a mountain collapsed onto a remote village in Papua New Guinea two weeks ago, New Zealand geological experts warned on Friday, as authorities ended search and rescue efforts.
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Toxic Water Plagues This Uttar Pradesh District, But It's No Poll Issue
It's been two decades and four Lok Sabha elections, but 50-year-old Sumariya Devi is yet to see politicians showing any interest in eradicating the curse of fluorosis that plagues her village in East Uttar Pradesh. A crippling disease caused due to the presence of excess fluoride in the ground water, it has left many among them with deformed teeth ...
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Uttarakhand Election 2017: Over 1000 'Ghost Villages' In State Make Migration Major Poll Issue
As Uttarakhand voted in its 4th assembly election on Wednesday, one of the key issues that plagued voters' minds in the hill-state was intra-state migration, which has led to a demographic drain from the hill-districts and spurred the creation of as many as 1,053 'ghost villages', uninhabited settlements, across Pauri, Tehri, Almora, Uttarkashi, Ch...
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Rio 2016: British Team Bring Own Plumber as Games Village Suffers From Problems
The British Olympic team, who are eyeing their biggest medal tally ever, have employed their own plumber as the Games Village continues to be plagued by infrastructure issues.
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Rio Olympics: Australia Boycott Games Village, Calls it Unsafe
Australia's Olympic delegation have boycotted the Olympic Games village in Rio de Janiero, calling it unsafe and not ready to lodge athletes
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9 Years Later, UPA's Flagship Scheme for Rural Poor Plagued by Lack of Funds
There isn't much to do for Pantho Munda, a resident in Angara village of Jharkhand's Ranchi district. He has spent 18 months working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, or MNREGA, building a well in the village. And he is still waiting for part of his payment.
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Struggling Liberia Creates 'Plague Villages' in Ebola Epicentre
To try to control the Ebola epidemic spreading through West Africa, Liberia has quarantined remote villages at the epicentre of the virus, evoking the "plague villages" of medieval Europe that were shut off from the outside world.
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Madagascar Unleashes Poisoned Rain to Break Locust Plague
The choppers swoop in, dumping insecticide over a plague-stricken village in Madagascar's stunning central highlands.
