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World's Most Amazing Floating Villages You Should Visit At Least Once
The world's floating villages remind us that Earth contains far more possibilities than we typically imagine.
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Victim Killed Over Bidi: Cops Crack Raipur 'Blind Murder' Mystery, Arrest 3
A 'blind murder' mystery in Raipur's Amner village has been solved by the police. Three men were arrested for killing 26-year-old Sonu Pal on Thursday, whose body was found floating in a drain near Goda Pul earlier this week.
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7 Mysterious Places In India Where Science Fails And Stories Take Over
From temples with floating pillars to villages without doors, the country is filled with places that refuse to play by the rules of logic.
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4,600 Athletes To Stay On 'Floating Village' During 2026 Asian Games. Reason Is...
A further 2,400 people will stay in temporary shelters made from shipping containers a short bus ride away.
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Video: Villagers Tie Body To Rubber Tube To Cross Flooded River
A group of villagers in Madhya Pradesh tied a man's body to a floating rubber tube to cross the flooded Narmada river to reach their village, as the connecting road was closed following incessant rain.
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Bodies Of 3 Children Found In UP Village Pond, Families Allege Murder: Cops
The bodies of three children were found floating in a village pond in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur on Wednesday evening with their families claiming that they had been murdered, police said.
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Dead Fish In Jodhpur Pond Raise Water Scarcity Concerns Amid Heatwave
A school of dead fish was seen floating on the surface of a drying pond in a Jodhpur village evoking concern about water security as western Rajasthan is currently experiencing heatwave conditions and monsoon is about a fortnight away.
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This Dead Whale's Stomach Had 88 Pounds Of Calcifying Trash
By the time marine biologist Darrell Blatchley arrived at the fishing village Saturday, the young Cuvier's beaked whale was already floating, dead in the water, its eyes sunken and ribs protruding through its skin
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Mob Burns 10 Houses After Missing Man's Body Found In West Bengal
A mob set fire to around 10 houses at a village in Purba Medinipur district after the body of a missing man was found floating in a pond Friday, police said.
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Karnataka Lake Drained After HIV+ Woman's Half-Eaten Body Found Floating
A 23-acre lake in village in Karnataka was drained out on Wednesday after villagers refused to drink water following the discovery of the body of an HIV-positive woman last week.
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'Floating Schools' Reinvent Education In Disaster-Prone Bangladesh
Mosammat Rekha's older cousins grew up unable to read and write, their tiny village so frequently cut off from the nearest school by floods that would rise suddenly in their remote corner of disaster-prone Bangladesh.
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Man Allegedly Threw 3 Sons Into River After Fight With Wife, Bodies Found
A man allegedly killed his three young sons by throwing them into a river after a fight with his wife in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district on Sunday. The bodies of the three boys -- six, three and three months -- were seen floating in the river near the village where the family lives. Local people, shaken by the tragic sight, called the police, wh...
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Dead Cows, Destroyed Homes: Story Of Laos Ravaged By Dam Collapse
The bloated carcasses of pigs and cows float in the knee-high flood waters covering the Laos village of Hoi Kong, as mud-caked residents pick through the remnants of homes destroyed by a dam collapse that they had little time to flee.
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16-Day-Old Baby Stolen By Monkey, Found Dead In Well With Injury
A newborn, who had been snatched away by a monkey from its mother's side at Talabasta village of Banki in Cuttack district on Saturday, was found dead today inside a well near the house, the police said.
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Pawan Kalyan Takes on PM Modi, Chandrababu Naidu
Popular Telugu actor Pawan Kalyan, who floated the Jana Sena before Lok Sabha elections last year, is back again in the political space. Just days after meeting Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu at his residence, Mr Kalyan visited villages where farmers had been resisting handing over their land to the government as part of a land poo...
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World's Most Amazing Floating Villages You Should Visit At Least Once
The world's floating villages remind us that Earth contains far more possibilities than we typically imagine.
-
Victim Killed Over Bidi: Cops Crack Raipur 'Blind Murder' Mystery, Arrest 3
A 'blind murder' mystery in Raipur's Amner village has been solved by the police. Three men were arrested for killing 26-year-old Sonu Pal on Thursday, whose body was found floating in a drain near Goda Pul earlier this week.
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7 Mysterious Places In India Where Science Fails And Stories Take Over
From temples with floating pillars to villages without doors, the country is filled with places that refuse to play by the rules of logic.
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4,600 Athletes To Stay On 'Floating Village' During 2026 Asian Games. Reason Is...
A further 2,400 people will stay in temporary shelters made from shipping containers a short bus ride away.
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Video: Villagers Tie Body To Rubber Tube To Cross Flooded River
A group of villagers in Madhya Pradesh tied a man's body to a floating rubber tube to cross the flooded Narmada river to reach their village, as the connecting road was closed following incessant rain.
-
Bodies Of 3 Children Found In UP Village Pond, Families Allege Murder: Cops
The bodies of three children were found floating in a village pond in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur on Wednesday evening with their families claiming that they had been murdered, police said.
-
Dead Fish In Jodhpur Pond Raise Water Scarcity Concerns Amid Heatwave
A school of dead fish was seen floating on the surface of a drying pond in a Jodhpur village evoking concern about water security as western Rajasthan is currently experiencing heatwave conditions and monsoon is about a fortnight away.
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This Dead Whale's Stomach Had 88 Pounds Of Calcifying Trash
By the time marine biologist Darrell Blatchley arrived at the fishing village Saturday, the young Cuvier's beaked whale was already floating, dead in the water, its eyes sunken and ribs protruding through its skin
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Mob Burns 10 Houses After Missing Man's Body Found In West Bengal
A mob set fire to around 10 houses at a village in Purba Medinipur district after the body of a missing man was found floating in a pond Friday, police said.
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Karnataka Lake Drained After HIV+ Woman's Half-Eaten Body Found Floating
A 23-acre lake in village in Karnataka was drained out on Wednesday after villagers refused to drink water following the discovery of the body of an HIV-positive woman last week.
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'Floating Schools' Reinvent Education In Disaster-Prone Bangladesh
Mosammat Rekha's older cousins grew up unable to read and write, their tiny village so frequently cut off from the nearest school by floods that would rise suddenly in their remote corner of disaster-prone Bangladesh.
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Man Allegedly Threw 3 Sons Into River After Fight With Wife, Bodies Found
A man allegedly killed his three young sons by throwing them into a river after a fight with his wife in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district on Sunday. The bodies of the three boys -- six, three and three months -- were seen floating in the river near the village where the family lives. Local people, shaken by the tragic sight, called the police, wh...
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Dead Cows, Destroyed Homes: Story Of Laos Ravaged By Dam Collapse
The bloated carcasses of pigs and cows float in the knee-high flood waters covering the Laos village of Hoi Kong, as mud-caked residents pick through the remnants of homes destroyed by a dam collapse that they had little time to flee.
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16-Day-Old Baby Stolen By Monkey, Found Dead In Well With Injury
A newborn, who had been snatched away by a monkey from its mother's side at Talabasta village of Banki in Cuttack district on Saturday, was found dead today inside a well near the house, the police said.
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Pawan Kalyan Takes on PM Modi, Chandrababu Naidu
Popular Telugu actor Pawan Kalyan, who floated the Jana Sena before Lok Sabha elections last year, is back again in the political space. Just days after meeting Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu at his residence, Mr Kalyan visited villages where farmers had been resisting handing over their land to the government as part of a land poo...
