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Vidarbha's farmers receive couple's healing touch Thursday, 17 January 2013 Nagpur: As debt-ridden farmers continue to kill themselves in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region due to government apathy, a Parsi couple from Mumbai has provided a healing touch
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In what is bound to raise the hackles of the Congress, NCP chief and union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has opposed the UPA government's plan to disburse cash to the poor based on Aadhar cards. He was addressing a massive women's rally organised
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As Prithviraj Chavan completed two years as Maharashtra chief minister, the number of farmer suicides this year rose to 624 with three more distressed peasants ending their lives Sunday, an activist said here. "Despite Dhanteras and the upcoming
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Cotton farmers of Vidarbha and farm widows will join the nation-wide bandh on September 20 to protest the government's decision to operationalise 51 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail. They have decided to block national
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The move was announced in the Maharashtra legislature by Agriculture Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil Wednesday. The minister said the decision was based on many complaints of the farming community and reports of agriculture officers that the Mahyco
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The erratic progress of the monsoon has made four distressed farmers from Vidarbha commit suicide in the last 48 hours alone...Activists fear that if rains are delayed further, there could be a sharp increase in the tally of farmers' suicides in
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Krishnakumar Taori, the Group Managing Director of Hasan Juma Backer Trading and Contracting Co. LLC, engaged in mega construction projects in Oman, has come to the rescue of the distressed community of eastern Maharashtra...Taori also agreed to bear
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The non-receipt of declared relief for crop loss and the sudden crash in cotton prices due to stringent restriction on cotton export is beginning to pinch. Three farmers, including a woman, committed suicide on Friday. While one of the deceased,
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Kalavati Bandurkar, a woman from Maharashtra's Vidarbha region who inspired Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to make an impassioned speech in parliament in 2009, Tuesday could not be traced by Bharatiya Janata Party workers who wanted her to
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Lord Ganapati is known Vighnaharta i.e. the troubleshooter god but failed to do so is gloomy vidarbha as whole nation was celebrating Ganesha arrival ,in agrarian crisis hit vidarbha five more distressed farmers killed themselves on ‘
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