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Tuesday, April 7, 2026
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Topic: UP village

ThePrint’s Praveen Jain wins Ramnath Goenka for photo story on UP’s ‘no power, no vote’ villages

Ahead of 2021 polls, ThePrint’s National Photo Editor captured the plight of a UP village along the India-Nepal border which remains cut off from development & the digital India dream.

Crocodile-infested waters, jungles, no network — covering UP villages on India-Nepal border

iWitness — the story behind the story of ThePrint journalists’ experiences on assignment.

Stuck in time — no mobile network, river & jungle only route to Indo-Nepal border villages

Six villages on India-Nepal border in UP's Bahraich — Bharthapur, Kartaniya, Amba, Bardiya, Fakirpuri, and Bisunapur — remain cut off from dreams of digital India & development.

‘No tower, no power’, polling officers on boats — many struggles of UP border villages going to polls

Villagers threaten to boycott polls if they don't get mobile phone network. It's also an issue for polling & security officials, who'll need wireless headsets to relay information.

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Syringes, MRI to ventilators, West Asia war squeezing India’s medical supply chain—costs up 10 to 50%

Industry says manufacturers have 2-4 weeks of buffer stocks, but prolonged disruption could push up shortage risks, especially of consumables like IV and syringes.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.