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  • Cobra found on a bike in Madhya Pradesh, charmer comes to rescue

    The incident took place in the Sagar district of Bundelkhand where a man was riding his bike when he heard hissing sounds from his vehicle.

  • How Gujiya, the favourite Holi sweet, colonised most of India

    The origins and types of Gujiya, differences between the Turkish baklava and Indian gujiya, and where to buy the best gujiya in Delhi, Thanjavur, Vrindavan, Mathura, Jaipur, and Mumbai.

  • Rahul Gandhi to address 3 rallies in Madhya Pradesh's Bundelkhand on April 30

    The meetings will be held in Tikamgarh, Damoh and Khajuraho Lok Sabha seats, all currently held by the BJP.

  • Will Congress be able to turn the tide in Bundelkhand?

    In April 2008, Gandhi had paid a surprise visit to Bundelkhand's remote Tapriyan village in Madhya Pradesh's Tikamgarh district and spent the night at a tribal's residence.

  • Will transform Bundelkhand like Kutch: PM Modi

    Mineral-rich Bundelkhand, he said, can change the "fate" of Uttar Pradesh and satellites can help keep a check on illegal mining.

  • Swaraj Abhiyan on 10-day padyatra in drought-hit regions

    CNBC -TV18's Archana Shukla walked along with Yogendra Yadav-led Swaraj Abhiyan's volunteers to find out how the government‘s response system is shaping up viz-a-viz food security, water availability and jobs.

  • Government has been a spectator to Bundelkhand drought: Yadav

    The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) started as a drought-relief scheme, but it simply doesn't exist in MP. The state action is not there, says Yogendra Yadav, convener of the Swaraj Abhiyan.

  • Rs 1,400 cr in UP budget for drought-hit Bundelkhand

    The fund size of special projects for Bundelkhand has been increased from Rs 71.50 crore to Rs 200 crore and a proposal worth Rs 200 crore has been earmarked for making special arrangements for potable water, the chief minister, who holds the finance portfolio, said in his budget speech.

  • Bundelkhand: The bitter truth

    2015 is a year that Indian farmer‘s would want to forget. It is the second consecutive year of drought and in fact the worst ever drought that farmers would have seen in recent history.

  • Administrative apathy: Drought-hit Bundelkhand's harsh reality

    Supreme Court's special commissioner in the right to food case, Harsh Mander visited the region to take stock of the drought relief measures in Banda district. CNBC TV18's Archana Shukla travelled with him only to find out that the local administration is virtually non-existent.

  • Heart-rending: Children are struggling for a meal in Bundelkhand

    The children of Bundelkhand are by far the worst affected by the drought in the region. Their one assurance of a square meal -- the Mid-Day Meal scheme in schools and the Anganwadi Food Distribution programme for pre-schoolers -- has stopped working.

  • Here's the impact of illegal sand mining in Bundelkhand

    It is not just drought and poor irrigation that's behind the severe hunger and starvation being witnessed in parts of Bundelkhand. In our special series What's Ailing Rural India, Archana Shukla explores the third major contributor to the crisis - illegal sand mining that's turning large tracts of fertile land into barren waste.

  • What's ailing rural India: Droughts, failed crops, loans

    In a CNBC-TV18‘s special series, 'What's ailing rural India', Archana Shukla travels to Bundelkhand region to bring forward the condition of the region.

  • What‘s ailing rural India: The bitter truth of Bundelkhand

    It been almost a month since the Uttar Pradesh government declared 50 of its 75 districts drought hit with the last few weeks seeing several reports of hunger and starvation emanating from the state.

  • Farmer suicides: The ugly truth

    Activists in Bundelkhand say over 100 farmers or their family members have committed suicide because unseasonal rainfall have damaged their crops

  • Progress of Women's movement in India

    A lawyer and a Gandhian, she was the head of the women‘s wing of the textile labour association in 1971 when she realized that self-employed women who work in Ahmedabad Crafts market had erratic wages and little recourse to law.

  • UP Assembly passes resolution to split state into 4 parts

    Amidst din, the Uttar Pradesh Assembly today passed a controversial resolution on splitting the state into four parts by voice vote minutes after which the lower house was adjourned sine die.

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