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Congress criticises Shivraj Chouhan's inability to control farmers�
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] June 11 (ANI): Criticising Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's indefinite hunger strike over farmers' agitation, the Congress Party on Sunday said the fast is observed to divert the attention from the former's mistakes in handling the crucia
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Congress, 'pseudo secular groups' raising obsolete issues: Rijij
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam)[India], June 10 (ANI): Reacting to the agitation against Centre's cattle ban notification, Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Saturday accused the Congress and 'pseudo secular groups' of raking up the issue for political benefit.
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Govt. making all efforts to double farmers' income: Rajnath
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], June 9 (ANI): In the back drop of Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur district boiling due to extensive agitation carried out by farmers, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Government is making all efforts to double the in
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Tamil Nadu farmers resume their protest
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 9 (ANI): In another raging farmer's agitation, farmers from Tamil Nadu, who have been demanding loan waivers, drought relief packages and formation of a Cauvery management board to resolve their irrigation issues, resumed their protest in the national
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Curfew to be relaxed in Mandsaur post farmers agitation
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 9 (ANI): Curfew in the violence-hit Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh will be relaxed from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., today.
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MP farmers' agitation: Police assures continuous patrolling
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 8 (ANI): The Madhya Pradesh Police on Thursday stated that continuous patrolling is on and at least sixty two people have been detained in connection with the farmers' agitation in the violence-hit district.
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Congress provoking violence in MP: BJP
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 8 (ANI): After the government decided to deploy five more battalions in Mandsaur, where five people were killed in firing to curb violence, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lashed out at the Opposition asserting that Congress was using this agitation t
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Mandsaur violence: Judicial enquiry taken up, says Centre
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 8 (ANI): Expressing concern over the farmers' agitation in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur District, Union Minister of Steel, Mines and Employment Narendra Singh Tomar today stated that judicial enquiry into this matter has been taken up and violen
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Lankan FM dismisses protest against Chinese projects as 'dissent'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 07 (ANI): Sri Lankan Foreign Affairs Minister Ravi Karunanayake on Wednesday dismissed the local opposition to Chinese projects as dissent, pointing that such agitations represent only a minimal faction and are not country specific.
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NAMO stands for 'No Agriculture Mal-governance Only': Congress
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): Coming down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his 'unusual silence' over the critical situation in Mandsaur following the farmers agitation, the Congress Party on Wednesday said that the ruling regime has acted like a 'curse of death
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Wrong info being spread about Rahul's participating in farmers'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): Clearing the air, the Congress Party said on Wednesday that the Mandsaur District administration has denied party vice-president Rahul Gandhi permission to visit the area to attend the funeral of dead farmers.
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Agitation in Mandsaur intensifies, protestors set vehicles on fire
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 7 (ANI): Farmers's agitation in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur district on Wednesday further intensified with protestors setting at least eight to ten vehicles on fire.
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