Mandla: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday claimed all villages in the state will be electrified by October and Rs 2 lakh crore spent on development of tribals in five years. Speaking at the National Panchayati Raj Day event in Ramnagar here in the presence of Prime Minister[Read More…]
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Over 400 killed in Iran earthquake near Iraqi border
Over 400 people were killed and thousands injured when a devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Iran in a region bordering Iraq, damaging hundreds of buildings and causing massive destruction. The death toll could rise, officials warned on Monday. Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) news agency raised the death[Read More…]
Bihar, UP, Odisha tops list of villages electrified in 2015-16
Bihar topped the list of the state with most number of electrified villages during the year 2015-2016. Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Assam, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Rajasthan hold the next positions respectively. The number of villages electrified in Bihar raised to 1754 in 2015-16 from 341 in 2014-15.[Read More…]
Let there be light! All villages to be electrified by May 2017: Goyal
Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that all the villages in the country would get electricity connection by May 2017, a year before the 1000-day deadline set by the NDA government ends. The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines also[Read More…]