Mandsaur Violence

A month after five farmers were killed in the police firing during the protest in Piplya Mandi near Mandsaur, the police have released the names of 32 persons who were earlier booked under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, in connection with the violence.

Farmers across three states held protests today demanding loan waivers, a higher support price for their crops and implementation of other recommendations made by the Swaminathan Commission, which had been focusing on the reasons for farmers' distress. For several hours in Haryana, farmer unions blocked highways. In Madhya Pradesh, where six farmer...

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is visiting the families of farmers who were killed in the June 6 violence in Mandsaur today. He has already visited the villages of Barwan Phunta, Lodh, Naya Kheda, Pipliya Mandi -- the market where shops were burnt -- and is expected next at the Barkheda Panth village. Five of the farmers had di...

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi announced today on Twitter that he is headed to Italy to visit his grandmother, leaving some puzzled by the timing of his journey, though the ruling BJP, which holds that Mr Gandhi lacks commitment to politics, said it's unsurprised.

It has been four days since firing in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur, where farmers had been protesting since the beginning of June, left six of them dead.

The Madhya Pradesh government is struggling to restore calm after five farmers were shot in clashes yesterday in the central city of Mandsaur, about 325 km from the capital of Bhopal. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan used Twitter to appeal to farmers to end the violence that has marked the strike they began on June 1, demanding debt relief and ...

Five farmers were killed after firing at a protest in western Madhya Pradesh, marking an escalation of violence as a rural strike demanding debt relief spread. Home Minister Bhupendra Singh told NDTV that the police did not shoot at the crowd in the central city of Mandsaur, 325 km from the capital of Bhopal.

A month after five farmers were killed in the police firing during the protest in Piplya Mandi near Mandsaur, the police have released the names of 32 persons who were earlier booked under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, in connection with the violence.

Farmers across three states held protests today demanding loan waivers, a higher support price for their crops and implementation of other recommendations made by the Swaminathan Commission, which had been focusing on the reasons for farmers' distress. For several hours in Haryana, farmer unions blocked highways. In Madhya Pradesh, where six farmer...

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is visiting the families of farmers who were killed in the June 6 violence in Mandsaur today. He has already visited the villages of Barwan Phunta, Lodh, Naya Kheda, Pipliya Mandi -- the market where shops were burnt -- and is expected next at the Barkheda Panth village. Five of the farmers had di...

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi announced today on Twitter that he is headed to Italy to visit his grandmother, leaving some puzzled by the timing of his journey, though the ruling BJP, which holds that Mr Gandhi lacks commitment to politics, said it's unsurprised.

It has been four days since firing in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur, where farmers had been protesting since the beginning of June, left six of them dead.

The Madhya Pradesh government is struggling to restore calm after five farmers were shot in clashes yesterday in the central city of Mandsaur, about 325 km from the capital of Bhopal. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan used Twitter to appeal to farmers to end the violence that has marked the strike they began on June 1, demanding debt relief and ...

Five farmers were killed after firing at a protest in western Madhya Pradesh, marking an escalation of violence as a rural strike demanding debt relief spread. Home Minister Bhupendra Singh told NDTV that the police did not shoot at the crowd in the central city of Mandsaur, 325 km from the capital of Bhopal.