Farmer Suicides
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Tamil Nadu farmers rally at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, scale mobile tower in protest | WATCH
Chennai | Apr 24, 2024, 02:50 PM ISTOver 100 farmers from Tamil Nadu converged at Delhi's Jantar Mantar to protest against the central government's policies, focusing on issues related to crop prices and river interlinking. Their demonstration entered its second day, with protestors scaling a mobile tower to intensify their demands.
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Maharashtra farmer ends life on day son recites poem against suicide
India | Feb 29, 2020, 05:10 PM ISTMalhari Batule, a resident of Ahmednagar, had a couple of loans outstanding, and the monthly installments of his stolen truck were also pending
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Amitabh Bachchan to pay off debts of over 850 UP farmers, will also help KBC Karamveer contestant Ajeet Singh
Celebrities | Oct 20, 2018, 11:13 AM ISTAmitabh Bachchan, earlier helped around 350 farmers in Maharashtra by clearing off their debts.
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Climate change behind 59,000 farmer suicides in India: study
India | Aug 01, 2017, 03:36 PM ISTThe findings by researchers at University of California, Berkeley in the US suggest failing harvests that push farmers into poverty are likely the key culprits
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1,000 farmer suicides in Maharashtra in 2015; HC suggests CSR help
India | Jan 21, 2016, 10:20 PM ISTMumbai: As many as 1,000 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra in 2015, the state government today told the Bombay High Court.The court, which has taken up the issue of farmer suicides suo motu (on its
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BJP dares Rahul to visit Congress-ruled states
National | Jul 26, 2015, 09:16 AM ISTCoimbatore: Referring to Rahul Gandhi's visits to Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh to meet farmers, Nirmala Seetharaman said he should have at least gone to Maharashtra, where highest number of farmer suicides took place during
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Maharashtra witnesses 1300 farmer suicides in last six months
India | Jul 20, 2015, 04:10 PM ISTMumbai: As many as 1300 cases of farmer suicide have been recorded only in the last six months, says the latest figure of state revenue departmentSo it has already touched 66% of the 1981 cases
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Over 5,500 farmers committed suicide last year, Maharashtra highest
India | Jul 19, 2015, 05:05 PM ISTNew Delhi: A total of 5,650 farmers committed suicide in 2014, with the maximum deaths being reported from Maharashtra, Telangana and Chhattisgarh, official data has revealed.According to the "Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India 2014"
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Drought-hit Maharashtra sees 40% increase in farmer suicides
India | Mar 22, 2015, 12:30 PM ISTNew Delhi: Maharashtra has recorded 40% rise in farmer suicides in the last seven months due to successive natural calamities and scarcity situation.The state reported 975 suicides by farmers between January to July 2014. The
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BJP slams Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao over farmer suicides, power crisis
National | Oct 25, 2014, 05:10 PM ISTHyderabad: BJP in Telangana on Saturday came down heavily on Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, blaming him for farmer suicides and power crisis in the State, which came into existence over four months ago.State BJP
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Gujarat govt rubbishes Kejriwal's charges on farmer suicides as baseless
India | Mar 26, 2014, 10:32 AM ISTGandhinagar: The Gujarat government has described as false and baseless the charges levelled by Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi that the state government was forcibly acquiring land from farmers, and that 5,874
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Highest farmer suicides in Maharashtra this year, Pawar informs Parliament
India | Aug 07, 2013, 09:06 AM ISTNew Delhi, Aug 7: Maharashtra witnessed 37 farmer suicides -- the highest among all states -- due to agrarian reasons till March this calendar year, Agricultural Minister Sharad Pawar informed Parliament on Tuesday.Seven farmers in
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Buddhadeb blames Mamata for farmer suicides
National | Jan 23, 2013, 09:30 AM ISTKolkata, Jan 23: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee slammed the Mamata Banerjee government for spending money on self propaganda, while farmers in the state were committing suicide."During our regime, the farmers were poor