Woman Farmer Suicide

A woman belonging to the scheduled caste community allegedly committed suicide by setting herself on fire after a brawl with the sons of an upper-caste farmer over a land dispute in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district.

In Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand region, 46-year-old woman farmer Munni reportedly hanged herself from a tree last Wednesday, right on her farmland which had left her with a debt of Rs 3.5 lakh because it just wasn't yielding.

A 40-year-old woman in Maharashtra's drought-hit Marathwada region, with nothing to eat, no work to do and faced with the reality of feeding five children, has committed suicide.

Self-proclaimed godwoman Radhe Maa, who has been battling charges of instigating a woman's in-laws to harass her for dowry, found herself at the receiving end of a much more serious allegation yesterday: that of driving four farmers to suicide.

A Japanese court is due to rule next month on a claim that Tokyo Electric Power is responsible for a woman's suicide, in a landmark case that could force the utility to publicly admit culpability for deaths related to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

May 1 is celebrated as Maharashtra Day across the state. However for five families it's not meant to be that. There are reports that five farmers including one woman farmer have committed suicide in the Vidarbha region of the state in the last 24 hours. Three farmers were from Yavatmal, one each from Washim and Amravati districts. According to stat...

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.

A woman belonging to the scheduled caste community allegedly committed suicide by setting herself on fire after a brawl with the sons of an upper-caste farmer over a land dispute in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district.

In Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand region, 46-year-old woman farmer Munni reportedly hanged herself from a tree last Wednesday, right on her farmland which had left her with a debt of Rs 3.5 lakh because it just wasn't yielding.

A 40-year-old woman in Maharashtra's drought-hit Marathwada region, with nothing to eat, no work to do and faced with the reality of feeding five children, has committed suicide.

Self-proclaimed godwoman Radhe Maa, who has been battling charges of instigating a woman's in-laws to harass her for dowry, found herself at the receiving end of a much more serious allegation yesterday: that of driving four farmers to suicide.

A Japanese court is due to rule next month on a claim that Tokyo Electric Power is responsible for a woman's suicide, in a landmark case that could force the utility to publicly admit culpability for deaths related to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

May 1 is celebrated as Maharashtra Day across the state. However for five families it's not meant to be that. There are reports that five farmers including one woman farmer have committed suicide in the Vidarbha region of the state in the last 24 hours. Three farmers were from Yavatmal, one each from Washim and Amravati districts. According to stat...

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.