Farmers

Will Take Care Of Mayawati's Farm Loan Waiver Concerns, Says Kamal Nath

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday January 16, 2019

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Tuesday said his government will take care of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati's concern over waiving off loans of farmers who had borrowed from money lenders.

India's Electric Vehicle Goals Being Realised On Two Wheels, Not Four

CarandBike Team (With Inputs from Reuters) | Tuesday January 15, 2019

Hurt by high fuel prices, Vinod Gore, a farmer in Gove village in Maharashtra, ditched his petrol scooter for an electric model, underlining how two-wheelers are driving the country's goal of electrification of its vehicles. Gore's electric scooter, built by Indian start-up Okinawa, runs for about 100-120 km (60-75 miles) on a single charge which c...

250 Lawmakers, Activists Write To PM Modi Over MGNREGA Fund Crunch

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday January 15, 2019

Nearly 90 lawmakers, several prominent civil society members, activists and leaders of farmers' movements have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising concerns over fund crunch in rural employment scheme MGNREGA.

Karnataka Farm Loan Waiver Will Be "Completely" In Budget: HD Kumaraswamy

Karnataka News | Press Trust of India | Sunday January 13, 2019

Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has announced that he will fulfill his Rs 46,000-crore loan waiver commitment made to farmers "completely" in the Congress-JDS coalition government's second budget that he is scheduled to present on February 8.

Grand Alliance To Waive Farm Loans If Brought To Power, Says Ajit Singh

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday January 11, 2019

Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president Ajit Singh said today that loans of farmers would be waived if "Mahagathbhandhan" (grand alliance) comes to power.

Aiming For Record After 2 Lakh Sing Anthem At Rajasthan Rally: Congress

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday January 10, 2019

Rajasthan Transport Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas said on Thursday that a farmers' rally organised on Wednesday in Jaipur where around two lakh people stood united at one place to sing the national anthem will be registered in the Guinness World Records.

After Loan Waiver, Ashok Gehlot Announces More Sops For Rajasthan Farmers

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday January 10, 2019

Soon after the loan waiver, more sops are coming for farmers in Rajasthan. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said power tariff for them will remain stable for the next five years.

"Maharashtra Sugarcane Crisis Not Created By Us," Says Nitin Gadkari

India News | Written by Saurabh Gupta | Thursday January 10, 2019

As sugarcane farmers in Maharashtra plan to launch an agitation over their grievances, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday blamed "external factors" for the prevailing crisis.

Hit Sixers, Don't Play On Backfoot, Rahul Gandhi Tells Rajasthan Farmers

India News | Written by Harsha Kumari Singh | Wednesday January 9, 2019

For his first rally in Rajasthan after the assembly election victory, Rahul Gandhi set the tone for the campaign for the coming elections, promising loan waivers across the country if the party is voted to power.

"Hope PM Learns About Love After Visit To The Taj City": Akhilesh Yadav

India News | Reported by Alok Pandey, Edited by Debjani Chatterjee | Wednesday January 9, 2019

Hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Uttar Pradesh's Agra on Wednesday, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav taunted him on social media with a tweet featuring the Taj Mahal, the world-famous monument to love

"Farmers Showed PM Their Strength In Recent Assembly Polls": Rahul Gandhi

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday January 9, 2019

Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday that farmers, troubled by the agriculture distress, showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi their strength in the recent assembly elections in three Hindi heartland states including Rajasthan, in which the BJP lost power to the Congress.

China Executes Farmer For Attacking Kindergarten Children With Knife

World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday January 7, 2019

China has executed a farmer who attacked several children with a knife at a kindergarten in a southern Chinese city two years ago, state media reported Monday.

Panel Suggests Rajasthan Waive Off Loans Of Farmers Who Committed Suicide

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday January 6, 2019

An inter-department panel formed to look into the modalities of farm loan waiver in Rajasthan has decided to recommend Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to waive all loans of farmers who have committed suicide between 2014 and 2018.

Farmers To Join Two-Day Nationwide Strike By Traders' Body Against Centre

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday January 6, 2019

Farmers across the country under the aegis of the Left peasant wings would join the two-day nationwide general strike on January 8 and 9 called by central trade unions against the alleged repressive policies for workers adopted by the Narendra Modi-led BJP government.

Madhya Pradesh Approves Farm Loan Waiver, Cut-Off Date Now December 12

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday January 5, 2019

The Madhya Pradesh cabinet on Saturday approved a farm loan waiver scheme under which dues of farmers worth Rs 2 lakh would be waived in the state. The cabinet also extended the cut-off date for farm loan waiver from March 31 to December 12, 2018.