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Uttarakhand·hills · village

Appropriate technology for rural areas: Mountain women use an instant water heater in a high altitude Pithoragarh village near Darma Valley.

Uttarakhand·festival · hills

Lost treasure of Uttarakhand: Gabla Dev festival at Baling village in Darma Valley, Pithoragarh Gabla Dev is a revered regional deity of the Sauka tribe in the Darma and Chaudas valleys of Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, considered an in…

Tehri, Uttarakhand·river · festival

Community fishing gathering takes place along the shallow, rocky Aglar River in Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India.

Haryana·crafts · village

A collection of traditional Indian village heritage objects and antique implements displayed at the Surajkund International Crafts Mela in Faridabad, Haryana, India.

Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand·village · hills

A traditional community gathering in Baaling village, Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, where a man ties a white turban around another person's head. The turban is locally known as benthulo and is tied for the annual Syang Sye pooja.

village · industry

A yellow JCB-style backhoe loader operates in an open rural field under a hazy sky. Its mechanical arm is raised while the bucket carries a large quantity of soil above a brown cargo trailer.

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English actress and model Hazel Crowney talks about her upcoming films and the experience of working with established production banners. She also responds to a question about being compared with Yana Gupta.

Himachal Pradesh·hills · village

Lalung is a high-altitude village in Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, surrounded by the region's dry mountain landscape. The settlement consists of traditional houses built with local materials and arranged along the sloping terrain.

industry · hills

An archival video shows laborers engaged in manual construction or stone-related work near the foothills of Dhosi Hill on the Haryana-Rajasthan border.

livestock · farmland

A herd of domestic goats at a farm in Rajasthan, India, including mixed-breed goats identified as Sirohi and Ajmeri types. The goats are gathered inside a rustic, tent-like livestock enclosure.

village · politics

Hard manual labour in India, for village men and women. These village women work for food. They do not get paid in cash terms. They dig pits and create irrigation canals out in the hot summer sun, in 50 degrees Celcius temperatures.

Uttarakhand·hills · village

Cicadas calling in summer warmth and langour, cow bells ringing out, a Himalayan village in Mussoorie. Bada bagicha

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Chhattisgarh·sport · village

An amazing horse dancing competition was held at Kila Raipur Sports Festival, Ludhiana Punjab. Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India.

sport · livestock

This is not natural behaviour for a camel, obviously. It isn't good for the poor animal's psyche or body either...

Madhya Pradesh·river · village

The local fishermen of Madla village in Panna, Madhya Pradesh, fish the Ken River by floating up and down it in old tyre tubes of trucks. They use their feet to paddle and also use a small oar.

wildlife · village

In a typical human-animal conflict situation, a leopard made its way into a village in India, and had to be tranquilised to be taken out and re-located into a nearby forest.

village · farmland

Farm-fresh gurh being made in a fiedl factory in rural Uttar Pradesh, with the cane coming right off the fields.

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Much has changed in the field of welfare of women and children in the country yet rural areas are less privileged when it comes to healthcare amenities.

hills · village

Lovely mid-winter views of Mahla, Srikantha and Lamkhaga pass and peak in Garhwal Himalaya above Harsil in Uttarakhand state. The fields and apple orchards are above Mahla village and Dharali gaon. The peak is of Mahla near Srikantha.

Jammu and Kashmir·village

On 27 February 2019, Abhinandan Varthaman was flying a MiG-21 as a part of a sortie that was scrambled to intercept an intrusion by Pakistan aircraft into Jammu and Kashmir.

Jammu and Kashmir·village

A top view of a village in the Kashmir Valley. Close-ups of the destruction of property by shelling. Locals pick up and show fragments caused by the shelling in their village.

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Urbanized villages in a rural landscape of farmland north of Bengaluru city in Karnataka. India is turning more and more urban. Even rural areas are being built-up in urban style as money reaches the hinterland.