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Chouhan asks Centre to purchase bumper crops
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said the Centre has given an assurance that it will buy onions and various kinds of lentils from farmers in the wake of a price fall and a 20 percent agriculture growth in the state this year.
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Punjab Govt. announces loan waiver for 'marginal' farmers
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India] June 19 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday announced total waiver of entire crop loans up to Rs. 2 lakh for small and marginal farmers up to 5 acres, and a flat Rs. 2 lakh relief for all other marginal farmers, irrespective of their loa
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Cabinet approves interest subvention scheme for farmers
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 14 (ANI): The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the interest subvention scheme for farmers with an allotment of total expenditure of Rs. 20,339 crores in the current financial year as interest subsidy on short term crop loans.
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Congress should be punished: Farmer leader on Re. 1 compensation by K'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Gulbarga (Karnataka) [India], June 10 (ANI): Slamming the Congress government for depositing a compensation of Rupee 1 for the damaged crops in farmers' bank accounts, farmer leader Basavaraj Ingin on Saturday said that this move should be punished by the public.
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Full of Freshness! Kashmir's cherry harvesting in full swing
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], June 7 (ANI): The harvesting of mouth watering and delicious cherry fruit crop have stated in full swing in Kashmir valley.
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Maharashtra: Protesting farmers continue to spill milk down roads
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Shirdi (Maharashtra) [India], June 2 (ANI): With the indefinite strike of farmers demanding crop loan waivers and better procurement prices entering its second day on Friday, the farmers continue to spill litres of milk down the road.
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Congress asks AAP to explain overseas funding
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 6 (ANI): Asserting that irregularities have cropped in the past as well in connection with foreign funding of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Congress Party on Saturday urged the Arvind Kejriwal-led outfit to come out clean in the regard.
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Sidhu announces compensation to farmers from his pocket
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Othian (Punjab) [India], Apr 23 (ANI): Even before the government machinery could move to give compensation to the farmers who lost their standing wheat crop in a fire incident on Saturday, local body minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday announced to give Rs. 24 lakh as compensation to them
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DMK convenes all-party meet to deliberate TN farmers' woes
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], April 16 (ANI): The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has convened an all-party meeting to deliberate the woes of the farmers of drought-hit Tamil Nadu agitating for a crop loan waiver.
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Pesticide exposure speeds up puberty in boys
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA]. April 2 (ANI): Chinese researchers have warned environmental exposure to pesticides that kill mosquitoes, insects and sprayed on crops, may cause boys to reach sexual maturity early at the age of nine.
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Fertiliser sales volumes to see moderate growth in H1 FY2018, says ICRA
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 24 (ANI): In ICRA's view, the demand for fertilizers in H1 FY2018 will witness moderate growth, given the lower base for H1 FY2017 and improved spending power of the farmer community with higher MSPs for rabi crops and strong sowing witnessed during the season.
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Madrassas outnumber educational institutions in Islamabad
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar. 18 (ANI): Religious seminaries have outnumbered educational institutions in Islamabad as the federal government did not open any new school in the national capital during the last four years, but a number of madrassas cropped up.
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