Drop in cases of suicide by farmers: Govt
The number of suicide by farmers has gone down in the country, the government stated in the Lok Sabha on Friday.
Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena informed the Lok Sabha during Question
NDA, Left MPs walkout in LS on farmers' issues
Accusing the UPA government of adopting anti-farmer policies, members from the NDA and the Left parties on Monday staged a walk out in the Lok Sabha.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour, NDA Convenor
Noida land acquisition row: SC notice to UP, Noida
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on a petition by the farmers of Visrak and Patwari villages seeking restoration of their lands acquired by the Noida authority
Farmers seek college land retrieval
Members of Tamil Nadu Federation of Universities Faculty Association, poultry farmers and CPI (M) functionaries on Monday observed a fast in the city demanding the state government to protect the poul
Debt drives three more Vidarbha farmers to suicide
Driven to desperation in the face of rising poverty and falling cotton prices, three more debt-ridden farmers in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region have ended their lives, an activist said on Friday.
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Mega fest for farmers on Tamil New Year
Seeking to reaffirm her earlier resolve on celebrating Tamil New Year on first day of Chithirai (mid-April) and not on Thai 1 as altered by the previous DMK, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa announced t
No injustice will be done to farmers: Gowda on Cauvery issue
Slamming Tamil Nadu for 'frequently' raking up the Cauvery River water issue, Karnataka Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda on Saturday asserted that no injustice would be done to farmers in the Ca
HC slams Delhi government for land acquisition
The Delhi High Court has slammed the Delhi government for failing to respond to a plea by 172 farmers over takeover of their land using the urgency clause of the Land Acquisition Act.
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Summons issued to Union Minister M.K. Alagiri
Union minister M. K. Alagiri has been summoned by the district collector in connection with complaints by some farmers that silting of a nearby channel and constructing buildings of an engineering col
Farmers dump potatoes on roads in Gujarat
Hit by a crop glut and protesting ‘insensitive’ attitude of the Gujarat Government towards their plight, hundreds of farmers on Tuesday dumped potatoes on roads in Deesa town near here.
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