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20 Farmers Die Of Pesticide Poisoning In Maharashtra, Some Critical
Over 600 farmers have been affected by pesticide inhalation in Maharashtra Vidarbha. With symptoms like blurred vision, nausea, skin rashes, headaches and dizziness, over 100 farmers are still recovering at the district hospital in Yavatmal. Some have lost their sight and others are in the intensive care unit
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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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Ignoring Drought-Hit Farmers Could Lead to a 'Bloody Revolution': Nana Patekar
In a move that would make him appear to be a misfit in Bollywood, Nana Patekar spends his weekends in Maharashtra's suicide belts of Marathwada and Vidarbha.
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Fear of Drought Makes Distressed Farmers Seek Permission to Die
Seven farmers from Maharashtra's Wardha district have written to the state government seeking permission to kill themselves. Deficient rainfall and hailstorms earlier this year had destroyed their crops, and they have not been given the promised compensation by the government since January this year.
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Congress Workers Help Deb-Ridden Farmers in Vidarbha Following Rahul Gandhi's Visit in April
Congress workers have adopted the households of nine debt-ridden Vidarbha farmers, who had committed suicide, and paid off their loans after party Vice President Rahul Gandhi visited them in April during his 'padyatra' over the farm distress issue.
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Rahul May Just Have Put BJP on the Defensive
The BJP has come to believe that Rahul Gandhi is an ineffectual 'Pappu'. Suddenly, has has hit and they don't know whether to attack him, says Kumar Ketkar.
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12 Farmers in Vidarbha Commit Suicide In 72 Hours
In 72 hours, 12 farmers from Vidarbha region in Maharashtra committed suicide due to crop losses, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samittee chief Kishore Tiwari announced today.
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First Father, Then Son: Two Lives Lost in Vidarbha For Just Rs 75,000
Little Kanhaiya is hungry and crying. The one-year-old has no idea that he has lost his father. Battling her pain, his 25-year-old mother, Yogita Chaudhary manages a fake smile to console her child. But who will console her?
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76-Year-Old Farmer in Drought-Hit Vidarbha Performs His Last Rites. Comment Here.
Kashiram Indore is the 42nd farmer to commit suicide in Maharashtra's drought-ravaged Vidarbha region in the last 50 days.
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Farmer in Drought-Hit Vidarbha Lights his Own Funeral Pyre
A 76-year-old soyabean farmer in Maharashtra performed his own last rites by building a pyre in the middle of his fields, climbing atop it and setting it ablaze on Friday last.
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Unable to buy Diwali gifts, five Vidarbha farmers commit suicide
The distressed farmers took the extreme step of ending their lives in the last 48 hours.
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Vidarbha farmers, widows to 'mourn' decade of BT cotton
Bt cotton, Vidarbha farmers, protest
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Vidarbha farmer's widow writes to Sonia Gandhi, seeks help
A woman hailing from Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, who recently became famous after appearing on quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC), has written a letter to UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi threatening to commit suicide due to "atrocities" by a local Congress leader and police.
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Five farmers commit suicide in Vidarbha
With five cotton growers committing suicide on Thursday, a total of 507 farmers have killed themselves during 2011 alone in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, an NGO fighting for farmers' rights said on Friday.
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In Vidarbha, poverty drives father to use sons to till his land
Farmers in Vidarbha district of Maharashtra are a desperate lot. Poverty has pushed them to do the unthinkable. Kishan Rao Dapurkar, a farmer, is tilling his land using his sons instead of bullocks.
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20 Farmers Die Of Pesticide Poisoning In Maharashtra, Some Critical
Over 600 farmers have been affected by pesticide inhalation in Maharashtra Vidarbha. With symptoms like blurred vision, nausea, skin rashes, headaches and dizziness, over 100 farmers are still recovering at the district hospital in Yavatmal. Some have lost their sight and others are in the intensive care unit
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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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Ignoring Drought-Hit Farmers Could Lead to a 'Bloody Revolution': Nana Patekar
In a move that would make him appear to be a misfit in Bollywood, Nana Patekar spends his weekends in Maharashtra's suicide belts of Marathwada and Vidarbha.
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Fear of Drought Makes Distressed Farmers Seek Permission to Die
Seven farmers from Maharashtra's Wardha district have written to the state government seeking permission to kill themselves. Deficient rainfall and hailstorms earlier this year had destroyed their crops, and they have not been given the promised compensation by the government since January this year.
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Congress Workers Help Deb-Ridden Farmers in Vidarbha Following Rahul Gandhi's Visit in April
Congress workers have adopted the households of nine debt-ridden Vidarbha farmers, who had committed suicide, and paid off their loans after party Vice President Rahul Gandhi visited them in April during his 'padyatra' over the farm distress issue.
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Rahul May Just Have Put BJP on the Defensive
The BJP has come to believe that Rahul Gandhi is an ineffectual 'Pappu'. Suddenly, has has hit and they don't know whether to attack him, says Kumar Ketkar.
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12 Farmers in Vidarbha Commit Suicide In 72 Hours
In 72 hours, 12 farmers from Vidarbha region in Maharashtra committed suicide due to crop losses, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samittee chief Kishore Tiwari announced today.
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First Father, Then Son: Two Lives Lost in Vidarbha For Just Rs 75,000
Little Kanhaiya is hungry and crying. The one-year-old has no idea that he has lost his father. Battling her pain, his 25-year-old mother, Yogita Chaudhary manages a fake smile to console her child. But who will console her?
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76-Year-Old Farmer in Drought-Hit Vidarbha Performs His Last Rites. Comment Here.
Kashiram Indore is the 42nd farmer to commit suicide in Maharashtra's drought-ravaged Vidarbha region in the last 50 days.
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Farmer in Drought-Hit Vidarbha Lights his Own Funeral Pyre
A 76-year-old soyabean farmer in Maharashtra performed his own last rites by building a pyre in the middle of his fields, climbing atop it and setting it ablaze on Friday last.
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Unable to buy Diwali gifts, five Vidarbha farmers commit suicide
The distressed farmers took the extreme step of ending their lives in the last 48 hours.
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Vidarbha farmers, widows to 'mourn' decade of BT cotton
Bt cotton, Vidarbha farmers, protest
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Vidarbha farmer's widow writes to Sonia Gandhi, seeks help
A woman hailing from Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, who recently became famous after appearing on quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC), has written a letter to UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi threatening to commit suicide due to "atrocities" by a local Congress leader and police.
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Five farmers commit suicide in Vidarbha
With five cotton growers committing suicide on Thursday, a total of 507 farmers have killed themselves during 2011 alone in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, an NGO fighting for farmers' rights said on Friday.
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In Vidarbha, poverty drives father to use sons to till his land
Farmers in Vidarbha district of Maharashtra are a desperate lot. Poverty has pushed them to do the unthinkable. Kishan Rao Dapurkar, a farmer, is tilling his land using his sons instead of bullocks.
