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Kanpur Farmer Thought His Loan Waived, Found Hanging After Bank Notice
There was a sense of relief in the Rajendra Kumar Nishad household earlier this year when Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath government announced a waiver of loans taken by small and marginal household. The 65-year-old farmer had an outstanding loan of 80,000 rupees from 2009. It was for a bore-well in his small farmland in the outskirts of Kanpur dist...
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Rahul Gandhi Frustrated, Telling Lies: BJP
BJP today accused Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi of telling "lies" after he attacked the government over the issues of price rise and farmers and claimed that the Narendra Modi government has provided complete protection to peasants.
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Why Akshay Kumar Won't Talk About His Donations to Farmers
The state faces one of its worst droughts, specifically the Marathwada region. The Singh is Kinng actor plans to financially help 180 families of farmers who committed suicide due to the acute agrarian crisis. -Everybody does it and there is nothing to talk about it. I don't know what to say," the 48-year-old actor said
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Karnataka Farmer Allegedly Sets Crop on Fire, Jumps In
In a macabre case of alleged suicide, a distressed debt-ridden sugarcane farmer set fire to the crop and jumped into it at a village in Mandya district today.
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Truth vs Hype: When the Hail Came, a Farmer's Mother Had a Heart Attack
The repeated crop failures have shaken farm families in Alwar, at the border with Haryana, part of India's grain belt.
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Andhra Pradesh staring at drought
Elaborate prayers to the Rain God went unanswered. Andhra Pradesh is staring at a drought, with 48 per cent rainfall deficit and farmers are distressed.
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Kanpur Farmer Thought His Loan Waived, Found Hanging After Bank Notice
There was a sense of relief in the Rajendra Kumar Nishad household earlier this year when Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath government announced a waiver of loans taken by small and marginal household. The 65-year-old farmer had an outstanding loan of 80,000 rupees from 2009. It was for a bore-well in his small farmland in the outskirts of Kanpur dist...
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Rahul Gandhi Frustrated, Telling Lies: BJP
BJP today accused Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi of telling "lies" after he attacked the government over the issues of price rise and farmers and claimed that the Narendra Modi government has provided complete protection to peasants.
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Why Akshay Kumar Won't Talk About His Donations to Farmers
The state faces one of its worst droughts, specifically the Marathwada region. The Singh is Kinng actor plans to financially help 180 families of farmers who committed suicide due to the acute agrarian crisis. -Everybody does it and there is nothing to talk about it. I don't know what to say," the 48-year-old actor said
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Karnataka Farmer Allegedly Sets Crop on Fire, Jumps In
In a macabre case of alleged suicide, a distressed debt-ridden sugarcane farmer set fire to the crop and jumped into it at a village in Mandya district today.
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Truth vs Hype: When the Hail Came, a Farmer's Mother Had a Heart Attack
The repeated crop failures have shaken farm families in Alwar, at the border with Haryana, part of India's grain belt.
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Andhra Pradesh staring at drought
Elaborate prayers to the Rain God went unanswered. Andhra Pradesh is staring at a drought, with 48 per cent rainfall deficit and farmers are distressed.
