Banda. As we enter a narrow lane in Khaaipaar mohalla in Banda town, in search for the district’s sole female cricketer, now training to play for Uttar Pradesh, the afternoon is quiet, the…
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Lucknow. ‘On this Women’s Day I want to tell all women to always aim for success. Tragedy lies not in the fact that we can’t do anything but in the…
Chitrakoot (UP)/ Kota (Rajasthan)/ Mumbai: Slight and dark, Shyampati, 30, leaned against a house made fragile from unseasonal rain, and talked animatedly about life as a farmer, labourer, goat-herder, mother…
Mahoba. If you ever visited a small town, you’d know how public transport – loud and authoritative – is an enterprise that more or less runs the lives of residents. The…
Lucknow. ‘Our dress code is red and black – we wear a red kurta and a black salwaar. The red is supposed to warn onlookers because we can be dangerous…
Banda. In the Banda Tehsil compound, among rows and rows of male lawyers and notaries, sits one lone woman. It is hard to miss her: even in the mandatory black and…
Chitrakoot. On 21 February, 13-year old Dileep was killed in an accident in the Bajni hill-quarry of Rauli Kalyaanpur village here. His uncle Ramesh was severely injured. His older brother Rakesh…
Toilets and cleanliness are in the limelight this year, with the Central government under Modi launching the high profile Swachchh Bharat Abhiyaan, and galvanising state and private players to invest…
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School Buildings in Disrepair, Students Forced to Sit Outside
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 16, 2015Chitrakoot. In Chitrakoot’s Nandin Kurmiyan village, despite repeated complaints, students still study in buildings ridden with cracks in the Government Junior School. ‘In the monsoon season, water drips from the ceiling.…
Mahoba. Well known for its history of Alha Udal and for its paan (betel) farming, scores of men and women are seen at Mahoba railway station selling fresh paan leaves.…