The Odisha consists of a 47,677 inhabited villages as per the Census 2011 of which 9940 villages (20.9 per cent) are still waiting to be connected by the wireless network.
After a delayed arrival, the Southwest Monsoon covered the entire country on July 19. However, the country has recorded a 19% deficit rainfall since June 1.
The BJP has received the maximum donations of Rs 915 crore, which is 86.4 per cent of the total donations in the last two years. Congress stood at second on the list and the Nationalist Congress Party was at the third spot.
The villagers gave up the compensation they received for crop damage during 2016 hailstorm to fund the water conservation movement.
The dependence on groundwater has increased and the treasured resource is depleting. Droughts and erratic rainfall, and over-extraction of groundwater, has led to a 61 percent fall in groundwater.
The urban population of India has seen a rise from 17.1 percent to 29.2 per cent between 1950 and 2015.
The village was not getting water for 10-12 days in a row over the last few months. After Saraswati dug up the borewell, a government tanker gets filled up from it and distributes the water among villagers.
An analysis shows that SP-BSP alliance won only those seats in Uttar Pradesh where the population of their core voters—Muslims and Scheduled Castes—together cross the mark of 50 per cent or more.
Even as caste-based voting took a back-seat over nationalism in the Lok Sabha election, Maharashtra witnessed a reverse trend. The newly formed VBA got about 41 lakh votes, which is about 14% of the total votes polled in the state.
Lok Sabha election results suggest that Congress could not survive the saffron storm in places where the two national parties witnessed a bipolar contest.
Odisha has witnessed seven major cyclones in the last 50 years but the state has shown marked improvement in its disaster preparedness.
A look at the 17 constituencies of Maharashtra in fray tells us that the mantle has clearly shifted to the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance from the hands of Congress, which for the longest had an impregnable foothold here.
The left parties like the Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) are the front runners when it comes to following this new way of fund generation.
While allocation of funds to the education sector saw a decline, the number of recognised institutions across the country has risen in the last five years.
Raju Shetti is looking to be re-elected for a third time from the constituency and is representing the Swabhimani Paksha (SWP), a party he founded in 2004.
