Tag: Village

Woman kills husband, two children in Rawalakot

RAWALAKOT: The police on Thursday arrested a woman who killed three of her family members including her husband and two children over unknown reasons. Police said that...

IS seizes village in south Syria: monitor

  BEIRUT: An Islamic State group affiliate seized a village in southern Syria overnight from rebels who had agreed to a regime takeover, a Britain-based...

Christians told to build church out of village in Faisalabad

Around 40 Christian families in Nayya Sarabah village of Toba Tek Singh district near Faisalabad have been told to remove every visible sign of...

The Cambodian village on stilts

Each monsoon the soaring stilts that hold up the houses of Kampong Phluk prove their worth, as the dusty Cambodian village is transformed into...

Two children burnt to death, 15 shanties gutted in Nawabshah

NAWABSHAH: Two children, a brother and sister, were burnt to death and 15 shanties burnt to ashes due to fire in a village hut...

How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village

Bound together, the 10 Rohingya Muslim captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig a shallow grave. Soon afterwards, on the morning of Sept 2, all...

Progress on rural uplift programme reviewed

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif chaired a high-level meeting on Thursday to review the local government development package and progress on different matters...

Girl humiliated for brother’s ‘sin’

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Recent findings in the case involving the public shaming of a teenage girl by walking her naked through a village reveal that...

50 infected by hepatitis due to arsenic water

  LARKANA: As many as 50 villagers are said to be infected with deadly disease known as Hepatitis C in village Soonharo Khan Gadhi which...

Iran’s families minister concerned after all men in village are executed

The entire male population of a village in Iran has been executed for its alleged role in drug trafficking, according to an Iranian cabinet...

Village decides election by flipping coin

David DeLeshe has a coin to thank for his new role on the village of Stickney's board of trustees. DeLeshe and opponent Lea Torres...

ARFA KARIM to be honoured with model village

Authorities are planning to build a model village in honour of late Arfa Karim, an information technology genius who at nine years became the...

Indian village bars women from using mobile phones

A village council in eastern India has banned woman from using mobile phones, saying they "pollute the social atmosphere" by encouraging women to elope...

Serbian villagers claim encounter with a vampire!

Depending on which version of “history” you subscribe to, vampires originated in Egypt, China or, most infamously, Romania, where the real Romanian prince Vlad...

Sports Festival’s neighbourhood and village level in final phase

The Neighbourhood and Village level of the Punjab Sports and Youth Festival which is the first phase of the three-month long activity has entered...

Strange weather rains seaweed over village

Bemused residents in a quiet suburban street thought there was something fishy about the weather when it literally started raining seaweed. They were...

Hamdani buried at ancestral village

Veteran journalist Mahmood Hamdani was buried at his ancestral village Bahter, near Fateh Jang on Saturday night. He breathed his last early on...