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Bodies Of Farmer Couple Found In Well, Police Suspect Suicide
Bodies of a farmer couple were found in a well at a village in Akola district of Maharashtra today, the police said.
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Centre's Crop Insurance Scheme A 'Scam', Betrays Farmers: Arvind Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today termed the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yoajana (PMFBY), a crop insurance scheme, as a "big scam" and demanded that it be scrapped. He alleged that the scheme was meant to benefit insurance companies instead of farmers. "The (Pradhan Mantri) Fasal Bima Yojana is a big scam. It is betraying the farmers. Withou...
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In Telangana, 2 Orphaned Children Stare at Debt, Bonded Labour
The death of an indebted farmer often pushes his family and children into a worse crisis, especially when the administration doesn't come forward to support.
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Farmer leader Mahendra Singh Tikait dead
Farmer leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, who spearheaded several movements for peasants' rights in northern India, died today due to bone cancer.Tikait (76), who was president of Bharatiya Kisan Union, had been suffering from bone cancer since last year. He died at the residence of his son and BKU General Secretary Rakesh Tikait in Muzaffarnagar, famil...
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BJP's terrible mistake: Dead farmer in ads
A coloured photograph of a man smiling into the camera heralded the BJP's commitment to farmers in Karnataka. The ad was part of the party's campaign for the panchayat elections scheduled for later this month.A grossly insensitive mistake, as it turns out. The family of Nagaraju from a village about 80 km from Bangalore the Mandya district says he ...
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Bodies Of Farmer Couple Found In Well, Police Suspect Suicide
Bodies of a farmer couple were found in a well at a village in Akola district of Maharashtra today, the police said.
-
Centre's Crop Insurance Scheme A 'Scam', Betrays Farmers: Arvind Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today termed the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yoajana (PMFBY), a crop insurance scheme, as a "big scam" and demanded that it be scrapped. He alleged that the scheme was meant to benefit insurance companies instead of farmers. "The (Pradhan Mantri) Fasal Bima Yojana is a big scam. It is betraying the farmers. Withou...
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In Telangana, 2 Orphaned Children Stare at Debt, Bonded Labour
The death of an indebted farmer often pushes his family and children into a worse crisis, especially when the administration doesn't come forward to support.
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Farmer leader Mahendra Singh Tikait dead
Farmer leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, who spearheaded several movements for peasants' rights in northern India, died today due to bone cancer.Tikait (76), who was president of Bharatiya Kisan Union, had been suffering from bone cancer since last year. He died at the residence of his son and BKU General Secretary Rakesh Tikait in Muzaffarnagar, famil...
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BJP's terrible mistake: Dead farmer in ads
A coloured photograph of a man smiling into the camera heralded the BJP's commitment to farmers in Karnataka. The ad was part of the party's campaign for the panchayat elections scheduled for later this month.A grossly insensitive mistake, as it turns out. The family of Nagaraju from a village about 80 km from Bangalore the Mandya district says he ...
