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  Tamil Nadu farmers rally at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, scale mobile tower in protest | WATCH

  April 24, 2024 14:50 IST

  Over 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 | February 29, 2020 17:10 IST

  Malhari 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 | October 20, 2018 11:13 IST

  Amitabh 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 | August 01, 2017 15:36 IST

  The 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 | January 21, 2016 22:20 IST

  Mumbai: 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

  Politics | July 26, 2015 9:16 IST

  Coimbatore: 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 | July 20, 2015 16:10 IST

  Mumbai: 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 | July 19, 2015 17:05 IST

  New 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 | March 22, 2015 12:30 IST

  New 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

  Politics | October 25, 2014 17:10 IST

  Hyderabad: 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 | March 26, 2014 10:32 IST

  Gandhinagar: 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 | August 07, 2013 9:06 IST

  New 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

  Politics | January 23, 2013 9:30 IST

  Kolkata, 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