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"Anti-Farmer" Laws Blamed For Agrarian Crisis In Petition In Supreme Court
A farmers' group has taken its fight for higher remuneration and other issues to the Supreme Court, where it has filed a petition challenging an Article in the Constitution which it claims is against cultivators.
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Government Policies Responsible For "Agrarian Distress": Farmers' Bodies
A farmers and agriculture workers convention here today blamed the government's policies for "agrarian distress" in the country.
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Girls In Telangana Drop Out Of School To Pick Cotton In Farms
Access to education is still a luxury for young girls in Telangana's Warangal district who are dropping out of school to work on farms. When the debt-ridden farmer can't afford to pay to farm labour, the girl child is the first casualty.
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Modi's Maun Vrat On Farmers' Crisis Says Much
We need nothing less than a revolution in the Indian political mind-set that will respond as we used to do in the four decades from Nehru to Rajiv: "Everything can wait, but not agriculture". We are stoking the death of our democracy by failing to do so.
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Farmer, Son Found Hanging From Tree In Maharashtra's Drought-Hit Yavatmal
A father and son were found hanging from the same tree near their village in the drought-hit Yavatmal district in Maharashtra on Tuesday.
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Money-Lender at Door, Punjab Farmer and Mother Took Poison
A survey by the Punjabi University Patiala released in January shows farmers in Punjab owe have accrued a collective debt of nearly Rs 70,000 crore.
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Act Fast To Check Farmers' Suicide In Maharashtra: Lawmaker To Government
The government was today urged to act urgently to prevent suicides by farmers in Maharashtra who have been hit hard by the drought and were facing distress.
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This Crowd-Funded Scheme Could Curb Farmer Suicides In Maharashtra
A flagship micro-irrigation scheme of the state government, that wants to end dependency on large dams and move to village-level projects for harvesting and conserving water, is beginning to yield results, farmers in Yavatmal's Kolura village say.
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Farmer Suicides? It's Become 'Fashion,' According To This BJP Lawmaker
In controversial remarks, BJP lawmaker Gopal Shetty has attributed farmers' suicides to a "fashion" and "trend" to end lives.
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Declare Suicide Prone Areas As Organic Farming Zones In Maharashtra: Activist
In the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pitch for expansion of organic farming across the country, a prominent farm activist has urged Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to ban the use of chemicals in 14 suicide prone districts of the state.
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Central Team Visits Drought-Hit Regions, Maharashtra Seeks Rs 4,000 Crore Aid
A Central team is on a two-day visit to Maharashtra to assess the damage in drought-hit areas, after the state government sought a relief package of Rs 4,000 crore from the Union government. The state had earlier declared drought in 15,747 villages across Maharashtra.
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Steps to Ease Arhar Dal Prices Taken at Insistence of Our Ministers: Shiv Sena
The Shiv Sena today said the corrective steps to ease the price of pulses, especially arhar dal were taken at the insistence of its cabinet ministers in Maharashtra.
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Rahul Gandhi Meets Families of Men Killed in Punjab Firing
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will visit the Punjab's Faridkot district tomorrow and meet the families of victims of police firing during a protest there against a sacrilege incident.
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Nationalist Congress Party Protests in Maharashtra Over Marathwada Drought Issue
Senior NCP leaders including parliamentarian Supriya Sule today took to the street in Maharashtra's drought hit Marathwada region as they protested against the "apathetic" attitude of the BJP-led government to the plight of farmers.
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Maharashtra Waives Off Education Fee of Farmer's Children Till Class XII
In view of the prevailing drought conditions, the Maharashtra government today decided to waive off educational fees of the farmers' children upto standard 12 in the districts hit by the natural calamity.
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"Anti-Farmer" Laws Blamed For Agrarian Crisis In Petition In Supreme Court
A farmers' group has taken its fight for higher remuneration and other issues to the Supreme Court, where it has filed a petition challenging an Article in the Constitution which it claims is against cultivators.
-
Government Policies Responsible For "Agrarian Distress": Farmers' Bodies
A farmers and agriculture workers convention here today blamed the government's policies for "agrarian distress" in the country.
-
Girls In Telangana Drop Out Of School To Pick Cotton In Farms
Access to education is still a luxury for young girls in Telangana's Warangal district who are dropping out of school to work on farms. When the debt-ridden farmer can't afford to pay to farm labour, the girl child is the first casualty.
-
Modi's Maun Vrat On Farmers' Crisis Says Much
We need nothing less than a revolution in the Indian political mind-set that will respond as we used to do in the four decades from Nehru to Rajiv: "Everything can wait, but not agriculture". We are stoking the death of our democracy by failing to do so.
-
Farmer, Son Found Hanging From Tree In Maharashtra's Drought-Hit Yavatmal
A father and son were found hanging from the same tree near their village in the drought-hit Yavatmal district in Maharashtra on Tuesday.
-
Money-Lender at Door, Punjab Farmer and Mother Took Poison
A survey by the Punjabi University Patiala released in January shows farmers in Punjab owe have accrued a collective debt of nearly Rs 70,000 crore.
-
Act Fast To Check Farmers' Suicide In Maharashtra: Lawmaker To Government
The government was today urged to act urgently to prevent suicides by farmers in Maharashtra who have been hit hard by the drought and were facing distress.
-
This Crowd-Funded Scheme Could Curb Farmer Suicides In Maharashtra
A flagship micro-irrigation scheme of the state government, that wants to end dependency on large dams and move to village-level projects for harvesting and conserving water, is beginning to yield results, farmers in Yavatmal's Kolura village say.
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Farmer Suicides? It's Become 'Fashion,' According To This BJP Lawmaker
In controversial remarks, BJP lawmaker Gopal Shetty has attributed farmers' suicides to a "fashion" and "trend" to end lives.
-
Declare Suicide Prone Areas As Organic Farming Zones In Maharashtra: Activist
In the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pitch for expansion of organic farming across the country, a prominent farm activist has urged Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to ban the use of chemicals in 14 suicide prone districts of the state.
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Central Team Visits Drought-Hit Regions, Maharashtra Seeks Rs 4,000 Crore Aid
A Central team is on a two-day visit to Maharashtra to assess the damage in drought-hit areas, after the state government sought a relief package of Rs 4,000 crore from the Union government. The state had earlier declared drought in 15,747 villages across Maharashtra.
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Steps to Ease Arhar Dal Prices Taken at Insistence of Our Ministers: Shiv Sena
The Shiv Sena today said the corrective steps to ease the price of pulses, especially arhar dal were taken at the insistence of its cabinet ministers in Maharashtra.
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Rahul Gandhi Meets Families of Men Killed in Punjab Firing
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will visit the Punjab's Faridkot district tomorrow and meet the families of victims of police firing during a protest there against a sacrilege incident.
-
Nationalist Congress Party Protests in Maharashtra Over Marathwada Drought Issue
Senior NCP leaders including parliamentarian Supriya Sule today took to the street in Maharashtra's drought hit Marathwada region as they protested against the "apathetic" attitude of the BJP-led government to the plight of farmers.
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Maharashtra Waives Off Education Fee of Farmer's Children Till Class XII
In view of the prevailing drought conditions, the Maharashtra government today decided to waive off educational fees of the farmers' children upto standard 12 in the districts hit by the natural calamity.
