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MP CM demands pending amount of relief fund from Centre
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 13 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley here and demanded Rs. 2,800 crores of the drought relief amount pending with the Centre.
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Tamil Nadu farmers resume their protest
Updated : 8 years, 9 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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TN farmers suspend protest till May 25 after CM's assurance
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 23 (ANI): The Tamil Nadu farmers who had been protesting over drought relief funds and waiver of farmers' loans on Sunday suspended their protest till May 25 after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E. Palaniswamy's assurance.
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Tamil Nadu farmers' plight and their protests - A Timeline
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 23 (ANI): The Tamil Nadu farmers, who have been protesting in the capital for the past 40 days and demanding loan waivers, drought relief packages and formation of a Cauvery management board to resolve their irrigation issues, today hinted at withdrawing their agitatio
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Protesting TN farmers drink urine at Delhi's Jantar Mantar
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 22 (ANI): Tamil Nadu farmers stage a protest at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar for drought relief, drank their own urine on Saturday in another desperate bid to draw the government's attention to their plight.
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TN farmers continue their protest for drought relief
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 8 (ANI): Tamil Nadu farmers continue to protest for drought relief in New Delhi's Jantar Mantar area.
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Centre seems to be 'unperturbed' by farmers' issues: Stalin
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 1 (ANI): In an attempt to understand the woes of the Tamil Nadu farmers, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) working president M.K. Stalin on Saturday met them while they were protesting at Jantar Mantar here demanding drought-relief fund adding that the Centre seemed to
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Kanimozhi pulls up Modi Govt. for overlooking Tamil farmers' plight
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 31 (ANI): Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Kanimozhi on Friday joined the Tamil Nadu farmers, who have been staging a protest at the Jantar Mantar here for the past 18 days demanding drought relief package from the Centre, and lashed out at the BJP-led NDA regime fo
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TN Govt, Centre not taking farmers' plight seriously: Congress
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Mar. 29 (ANI): With Tamil Nadu farmers protesting in Delhi's Jantar Mantar for the past 15 days demanding drought relief package from the Centre, the Congress on Wednesday urged the government to consider the matter "urgently" and allocate money a
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Delhi: TN Agriculture Minister tries to pacify agitating farmers at Jantar
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar. 28 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Agriculture Minister R. Doraikkannu, on Tuesday apprised the agitating farmers, who have been protesting at Jantar Mantar for the past 15 days demanding a drought relief package from the Centre and farm loan waive, that steps has been taken by the
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Prakash Raj urges govt. to release drought relief package for TN farmers
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (Uttar Pradesh), Mar.24 (ANI): Expressing solidarity with the farmers of Tamil Nadu, Tamil actors Prakash Raj and Vishal on Friday urged the Centre to declare a drought relief package and loan waiver for peasants from the southern state.
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