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  As death toll touches 97, Tejashwi Yadav demands Centre to declare Bihar flood as natural disaster

  India | July 21, 2019 7:24 IST

  Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday said the Centre should declare the flood and drought situations in Bihar as national disaster and provide a financial assistance of Rs 10,000 crore to the state. The former Bihar deputy chief minister along with senior RJD leaders Sivanand Tiwari and Raghuvansh Prasad Singh met jailed RJD president Lalu Prasad, at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi.

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  Social organisations, part-time jobs provide helping hands to students from drought affected regions

  India | May 04, 2019 12:58 IST

  Many of the students from the 115 drought-prone districts of Maharashtra, studying in Pune to prepare for government jobs' tests or higher studies, do not go to their homes even during their holidays. They work for the whole year to finance their own education and even help their families.

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  PM Modi reviews drought conditions in Rajasthan, Jharkhand

  Politics | May 14, 2016 22:46 IST

  Narendra Modi on Saturday chaired high-level meetings to reviewed the drought and water scarcity situations in parts of Rajasthan and in Jharkhand.

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  Hooda concerned over drought-like situation

  India | August 26, 2014 21:50 IST

  Chandigarh: With Haryana receiving 60 per cent less rain this year, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today reviewed the prevailing drought-like situation in the state at a high-level meeting here.He directed senior officers of concerned

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  Partial drought-like situation looming in Bihar

  India | July 26, 2014 12:21 IST

  Patna: The Bihar government said that measures have been taken to tackle partial drought-like situation in the state. State Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh informed Assembly that his government is taking the matter very seriously and

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  UP government fully prepared for drought-like situations: Akhilesh

  India | July 16, 2014 22:20 IST

  Lucknow: Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said that the UP government is fully prepared to deal with any eventuality of drought-like situations in some districts of the state, and has also sent a report to