Villagers Panic As Ice Falls From Sky
A large piece of ice is reported to have fallen from the sky in the Indian State of West Bengal on 27 January 2006. This is reported to have taken place at the Katnabil Village, resulting in a flutter in the area.// The phenomenon has been dismissed as absurd by weather experts. The ice is reported to have melted down to weigh only 5 kilograms by the time a photographer arrived at the site. <...Orissa Villagers Jubilant as Girl Cleared Class X Examination
A girl in Orissa's Bhadrak district has cleared the class X examination - a feat no girl of her village has achieved so far. // The Belagadia village, some 150 km from the state capital of Bhubaneswar, has around 800 residents comprising mostly farmers. It does not have a school. Jharana Sahu used to walk almost four km every day to study at a high school in nearby Kalupur...Villagers in Tamil Nadu Take Part in Diabetes Pilot Project
As many as 2,300 people in a Tamil Nadu village and over 60 doctors are taking part in a research project to study diabetes complications.// A medical technology company, DyAnsys India, has begun the study in association with the Tirunelveli Medical College at the Ariyanayakipuram village, near here. "At present, there is little testing done to detect a diabetic condition k...India To Ask Villagers To Practice Safe Sex
To combat the growing number of HIV infected individuals, India plans to ask one young man and woman from every large village in the country to // teach others about safe sex and HIV, a health official revealed. "They could be weavers, or agricultural laborers or just be hanging around the village market place," said Sujatha Rao, director general of India's National Aids Control Organ...