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Dutch solo female rider in Haryana. Photo credit: @meikehijman on Instagram A solo female motorcycle rider @meikehijman (Instagram account) based in the Netherlands has sparked widespread debate online by uploading a video from rural Haryana, which showed a surprising act of hospitality during her motorcycle journey in India.The solo female rider uploaded a video where…
RAIPUR: What began as a rescue turned into a hunt in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district, where villagers allegedly killed and consumed a spotted deer after saving it from a pack of dogs. The incident took place in Delari village under the Raigarh forest division, where a spotted deer strayed into the village from nearby forests in…
Bicholim: Around 150 Karapur villagers,on Sunday, began an indefinite agitation under the banner ‘Karapur Gramastha Ekjuticho Aawaz’, demanding that the project by The House of Abhinandan Lodha be scrapped.Villagers expressed concern that large-scale development would lead to the destruction of water bodies and felling of trees. Deepesh Talkar, a local, said once the project becomes…
The Election Commission on Thursday transferred the probe into the gherao of judicial officers dealing with cases related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal’s Malda to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).A spokesperson for the poll body said an NIA team is expected to arrive in the poll-bound state on Friday to begin…
Across provinces near Beijing, govt has banned burning coal for residential heating to reduce pollution. At first, local govts eased the transition by heavily subsidising natural gas, which is cleaner but expensive. But this winter, officials cut the subsidies. Now, villagers are forced to sunbathe for warmth (NYT photo) QUYANG: The temperature was 28, but…
NEW DELHI: A gas pipeline leak at a well in Andhra Pradesh’s Dr B R Ambedkar Konaseema district triggered a fire on Monday at a site operated by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation’s (ONGC) production contractor, Deep Industries Ltd.No deaths or injuries were reported in the incident, according to preliminary information shared by an official…
DIPHU: A group of people burnt alive a couple in a village in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district, suspecting them to be involved in witchcraft, police said on Wednesday.The incident occurred on Tuesday night at No. 1 Beloguri Munda village in the Howraghat area.“The miscreants first attacked the couple with sharp weapons inside their house. After…
Villagers staging a sit-in protest at R K Pet state highway CHENNAI: Tension prevailed at Karlambakkam Colony near Pallipattu in Tiruvallur district on Saturday after two residents died and more than 10 others were hospitalised with symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea. Angry residents suspect that they died after consuming contaminated drinking water supplied to the…
Panaji: A day after the tourism department declared that construction of Pradhan Mantri Ekta Mall (Unity Mall) started after obtaining all statutory permissions, villagers hoped the court would scrap the project.On Saturday, villagers opposed to the project said they would ask the court to nix the proposed project. The court will hear the petition on…
RAIPUR: A simmering villagers’ sit-in against a coal block project exploded into violence in Raigarh’s Tamnar region in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, leaving a police officer and several cops badly injured as protesters clashed with security forces, torched vehicles and forced authorities to deploy reserve units to contain the spiralling tension. The situation remained highly volatile…
