LUCKNOW: A five-year-old girl sleeping in her house in Girdharpurwa village of Uttar Pradesh‘s Bahraich district was injured in a wolf attack early Tuesday, a day after wolves killed a two-and-a-half-year-old girl and injured two women in back-to-back strikes in less than 24 hours Monday.This was the third wolf attack in the region in the…
NEW DELHI: A land bridge was washed away by floods amid heavy rain in Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu on Wednesday amid heavy rainfall in the state.The Mothiramalai-Kuttiyar land bridge was destroyed following heavy rains in the Western Ghats region.Bus service to more than 15 hill villages, including Kallar and Thachamalai, was cut off.Similarly, tourists were not…
MEPPADI: Other than Velayudhan PT (62), no other person would have visited all the houses of the now-lost village of Mundakkai in Kerala’s Wayanad. The sexagenarian — who has three years of service left — visited the village on Tuesday for the first time after the tragedy to find no trace of the post office…
MEPPADI: Other than Velayudhan PT (62), no other person would have visited all the houses of the now-lost village of Mundakkai in Kerala’s Wayanad. The sexagenarian — who has three years of service left — visited the village on Tuesday for the first time after the tragedy to find no trace of the post office…
KOZHIKODE: In a different time, 18-year-old hotel management student Abhijith Kallingal would have gone for a long, leisurely stroll in his village of Punchirimattom to capture its lush green hills and waterfalls with his mobile phone, as he did almost every day. But this is now. Sitting in a relief camp in Meppadi’s government high…
BAREILLY: Four farmers were killed and two critically injured when a speeding pickup van, allegedly driven by a drunk driver, lost control and ploughed through the group as they sat under a tree seeking respite from the scorching heat in Paigha Bhikampur village in Bisauli area of Budaun district on Saturday afternoon.The deceased — Ram…
RANIBARI (WEST GUWAHATI): In the tranquil village of Ranibari in the foothills of Meghalaya and “part of both Guwahati and Shillong parliamentary constituencies”, residents face a unique predicament every election. With a population of nearly 500 from 96 families, and nearly 230 voters, the village is gearing up to vote for the Guwahati Lok Sabha…
OBRA: Each time the choppers carrying politicians hover in the sky, or their campaign vehicles enter the village, Ajit Kumar takes pilot seat on his static helicopter on the roof of his building and waves at them. This is his style of greeting politicians reaching his village for votes.Meet 60-year-old Kumar, a former school principal…
