Roadshow village

Seeing is believing. So farmers from Degaon in Satara district have made a film on their land which, they say, will be hard evidence in court of its abounding in crops, trees and irrigation sources — an aspect the government seems to have swept under the carpet to acquire 352.31 hectares in the village for the creation of an industrial sector by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC). Protesting against the proposed acquisition, the farmers, under the banner of the Bhumiputra Shetkari Sevabhavi Sanstha, have filed a petition in the Bombay High Court. “We raise paddy, wheat, sugarcane, soyabean, pulses and gram, and graze cattle. There are fruit trees and several irrigation schemes. Even those who have dug lakes and wells for personal use have struck water. How then can they say our lands are deserted and non-irrigated,” asks the president of the organisation, Baban Hanmant Ghadge, who himself stands to lose one hectare. Shivaji Sonba Salunke, whose 2.41 … [Read more...] about Industry plan lands Satara village in distress

A wild tusker took a stroll in Kiruhunase village in Sakaleshpur taluk on Monday, leaving the residents in shock and fear. The animal walked from one end of the village to the other, as people ran for safety. A biker ran into a house, leaving his vehicle, as he noticed the tusker coming from the opposite direction. Many people took pictures and video clips of the elephant’s movement in the village standing on balconies. The video clips have now gone viral on social media platforms. The Forest Department staff are appealing to the people not to step out in the evening and to be careful while travelling in the villages, where the herds have been roaming. … [Read more...] about Tusker spotted at Kiruhunase village in Hassan

A woman was shot dead in Uttar Pradesh’s Siddharthnagar district when a police team had gone to a village to inspect reports of cow slaughter. While the family of the woman Roshni alleged that she was shot dead by the police after she refused to hand over her son to the police during the raid, police said she was shot by a local man who was trying to disperse a crowd which had gathered at the spot to thwart the police operation. One person, identified as Jitendra Yadav, was arrested on charges of firing at the woman with a 315 bore country-made pistol, said the police on Monday. On May 14, a police team reached village Kodragrant Tola Islamnagar on reports of cow slaughter. On May 9, a case had been lodged for cow slaughter and among the four arrested, two belonged to Islamnagar and the other two were from a neighbouring village, said the police. Seven history-sheeters accused of cow slaughter live in Islamnagar, said the police. On May 14, when the police force reached the … [Read more...] about U.P. woman shot dead when police visit village to probe cow slaughter

Indonesia is known worldwide for its attractive tourist destinations. People who visit here need to at least know how to speak in English to be able to talk to the locals. Of course, there’s nothing better than knowing the local language. But today we are going to talk about a village located in Bali, where most of the people use sign languages for communication. The inhabitants of the village use only one language, which is called Kata Kolok. Kata Kolok is a sign language used by them to communicate with each other. The name of this village in Bali is Bengkala. Every person living here knows how to communicate in sign language. The reason for this is that in most families, one or more members cannot hear or speak. This village is also known as Deaf Village. The Kata Kolok sign language is not only used in the village, but in local government offices too. Kata Kolok is a centuries-old sign language. Only the people of the village can understand it. Outsiders shy away from … [Read more...] about Bengkala: Indonesian Village Where Residents Use Unique Sign Language To Communicate

Villagers from Danishpet protested in front of the Collectorate here on Monday demanding better road facilities to their village at Kadayampatti . The villagers from K. Kuttapatti near Kanjeri Kattuvalavu complained that their village lacked proper road access and demanded authorities to lay a road to their village at the earliest. They lamented that over 20 families lived in K.Kuttapatti and children were forced to trek through forests to reach schools and to access medical facilities. Pregnant women had to be carried through forests. The villagers alleged that despite repeated petitions to the district administration and revenue officials, no action had been taken. Despite landowners in the area volunteering to offer parts of their land to lay road, no steps had been taken in this connection, they said. … [Read more...] about Villagers protest demanding road facilities

Amazon Prime Video’s ‘Panchayat’ has quickly ascended the lines of people’s binge-watch lists and it’s safe to say that they are now invested in Abhishek Tripathi and the village of Phulera. While Phulera is a real village in Uttar Pradesh, that’s not where the series was actually shot. In fact, Panchayat’s Phulera is actually a village in Madhya Pradesh, called Mahodiya. A Twitter user going by @G219_Lost shared the coordinates of the village and also those of the fictional places in Phulera as they are in the real Mahodiya village. The cast had no place to stay in Mahodiya, so they would drive down from the nearest town to shoot the series in the village, as per India.com. The places whose coordinates were Googled include the series’ famous ‘Fakoli bazaar’ and ‘Bonrakas ka ghar’. The latter place was of particular interest to people on Twitter. This is the village (23°12'11"N 76°59'52"E) where the #Amazon series #Panchayat was actually shot, Mahodiya Village, MP. … [Read more...] about Panchayat Craze is So Real, Internet Just Found the Coordinates of ‘Phulera’ Village

The forest department personnel tranquilised and captured a leopardess in Durgapur area of Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district in the wee hours of Friday, days after villagers who were upset over growing incidents of man-animal conflict held some forest staffers ”hostage” for a few hours, an official said. The incidents of attack on humans by leopards in the area over the past couple of months had triggered panic and unrest among the local residents. The latest such incident had occurred in the area on May 10, in which a girl was injured. Following this incident, the Chief Conservator of Forests (CCF), Chandrapur circle, had issued shoot-at-sight orders to kill the leopard. The operation to capture the leopardess was conducted by the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) of Chandrapur forest range and Rapid Response Team (RRT) of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), the official said. Sources in the forest department said a leopard had entered the human residential area in Durgapur and … [Read more...] about Forest Dept Captures Leopardess Days After Villagers Hold Staffers ‘Hostage’ Over Feline Attacks in Maharashtra

A ghost village in the UK has remained eerily empty for nearly 80 years - since residents were kicked out during World War 2. Imber in Wiltshire hasn’t been lived in since 1943 and the isolated area now forms part of the British Army’s training grounds on the Salisbury Plain. The entire civilian population was evicted to provide an exercise area for US troops during World War 2 . On November 1, 1943, with preparations for the Allied invasion of mainland Europe underway, the people of Imber were called to a meeting in the village schoolroom and given 47 days to leave their homes. Villagers were told once the war was over they could return back to their homes as normal, but this never happened, and the village remains under the control of the Ministry of Defence to this day. The village located on Salisbury Plain was evacuated in December 1943 The first documented evidence of Imber’s existence comes from Saxon times, where the village was mentioned in 967. It … [Read more...] about Inside UK’s ghost village left empty for 80 years after all residents told to go

The eerie remains of a lost village submerged underwater in the 1940s have been making a ghostly reappearance when the weather is particularly hot and dry. The slowly rotting ruins of buildings that were drowned to create the Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire periodically rise from the mud when water levels drop enough. Last reported four years ago, these rare and fascinating exposures offer a glimpse of what the farming community of Derwent used to be like. The village church of St John and St James in the heart of the village, with seating for 140 parishioners, was initially left intact when the evacuated valley was flooded in 1945. The village's tower and spire would regularly be seen emerging way above the surface of the reservoir. Even though the bells were removed, some say the ethereal sound of them tolling can still be heard across the sunken valley where the structure stood until it was deemed a hazard and blown up 75 years ago. The ghostly Derwent church tower … [Read more...] about Drowned village where church bells can still be heard rising from mud 80 years later

(Note profanity in paragraph 2.) RUSKA LOZOVA, Ukraine (Reuters) - While three of his men heaped dark soil into a chin-high berm to shield their trench, Ohor Obolenskiy gestured on Sunday across sun-dappled fields to a tree-clad ridge line sweeping the nearby horizon. “We can see the Russian positions from here and say, ‘F*** you, Russians,’” the 35-year-old Ukrainian commander joshed in rough English, his grim face creasing into a wide grin. The amalgam of National Guard and volunteers he leads seized Ruska Lozova in fierce fighting on May 8, four days into a counteroffensive that has thwarted Russia’s bid to seize nearby Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city. The counter-offensive has been Ukraine's most successful since it expelled Russian troops from the north of the country and the area around the capital Kyiv at the end of March, and signals a new turning point in the battle for the east. For the first week, the troops in Ruska Lozova said, Russian shelling was so … [Read more...] about Ukrainian troops holding destroyed village believe Russians withdrawing across border