UP village

Special Report: This village is in lockdown for 40 years!

There is a village in Uttar Pradesh, just 87 km away from the country's capital New Delhi, where lockdown has been in place for the last 40 years. The surprising thing is that this lockdown is not due to COVID-19. Watch the ground report.

Jun 11, 2021, 21:24 PM IST

PM Modi lauds UP village for becoming free of open defection

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated the people of Mubarakpur, a small village in Uttar Pradesh, for becoming free of open defecation.

Jun 25, 2017, 12:02 PM IST

After threatening to embrace Islam, Valmikis get haircut in UP village after 70 years

For 70 years, members of the Valmiki community in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur Shamshoi village were denied a haircut due to an upper-caste diktat. That changed yesterday -- but only after they threatened to convert to Islam.

May 17, 2017, 19:47 PM IST

Police arrests advocate

 An advocate of Dayaram village

May 05, 2016, 03:18 AM IST

Sheetal Khera – This village in UP got electricity 68 years after independence

 Sheetal Khera Village – a village in close proximity of Lucknow – finally got electricity after 68 years of Independence.

Dec 06, 2015, 10:19 AM IST

Paina: A village where every family gives birth to a soldier

Paina village in Uttar Pradesh prides itself as the 'home of the soldiers'.

Nov 17, 2015, 22:10 PM IST

DNA: Village in UP builds bridge without govt's help

Often people beg for help from government in desperate conditions, but despite misery this village of Uttar Pradesh made a bridge of its own that helped twenty villages to cross the river.

Oct 31, 2015, 00:02 AM IST