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From a blood donation camp to cake cutting, how a Karnataka village celebrates their favourite bull’s birthday
Soumya Kalasa •Meet Rakshasa (meaning Demon), a six-year-old bull who is the apple of the eye of Kerimattihalli village of Haveri district in Karnataka
In Achal Mishra's Gamak Ghar, the gradual erasure of a village home that will live forever in cinema
Kunal Ray •Mishra’s film pulled me into the lives that transpired within the four walls of the home – matter of fact, routine, mundane, lacking action in every way imaginable. Showing life in its ordinariness. Almost an anti-thesis to village life represented in Hindi cinema.
From Sholay to TVF's Panchayat, how the face of rural India has transformed in Hindi entertainment
Devanshsharma •TVF's Panchayat redeems the depiction of rural India by breaking out of the template perpetuated by the 1975 classic Sholay.
Cow vigilantes thrash six villagers in Bihar for allegedly slaughtering bovine; additional police force deployed in village
•Six people were thrashed by cow vigilantes on suspicion of slaughtering a bovine in a house at Dumra village in Bihar's West Champaran district, the police said on Friday
Married off at eight, Rajasthan's Rupa Yadav is now a NEET success story
•Rupa Yadav was married off at the tender age of eight, but that never deterred her from pursuing her dream of becoming a doctor.
ICICI plans to make about 600 villages in India digitally-enabled this year
Ians •The 100 villages which have been transformed into 'ICICI Digital Villages' are located across 17 states in India.
Gujarat Villages Now Have Access To Broadband Internet
Fp Archives •Gujarat has brought broadband connectivity to 13,693 village panchayats in the state.
PNB Installs Biometric ATM At Chhapraula Village
Fp Archives •Punjab National Bank has taken the initiative to install a biometric ATM at the Chhapraula village
Meet Rohini Karale, the 16-year-old who's making her village go open defecation-free
Fp Staff •What was on your bucket list when you were 16? It's likely that it never included making your locality open defecation-free.
UP: Village in Shamli tense after murder of a gangrape victim's 50-year-old family member
•Tension prevailed on Tuesday in Akberpur Suneti village in Shamli district after a 50-year-old kin of gangrape victim was gunned down at his residence.