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Indore farmer dies of injuries, wife attempts suicide
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 9 (ANI): A farmer succumbed to his injuries in an Indore hospital on Friday and on hearing the news, his wife attempted to commit suicide.
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Rajnath tells opposition not to play with farmers' interests
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dudu (Rajasthan) [India], June 9 (ANI): Coming down heavily on opposition political parties for 'unnecessarily' blowing the farmers protest in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh out of proportion, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday called on them not to play with the interest
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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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Indebted MP farmer commits suicide
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Raisen (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 9 (ANI): A farmer, Srikrishna Meena, having debt of Rs. 10 lakh, allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in Madhya Pradesh's Raisen district.
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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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We will stand with the farmers; if it's politics, then we are playing
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] June 9 (ANI): In the wake of the farmer's protest in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress on Friday lashed out at the Centre, stating that they would stand with the farmers and if that is politics, then they are playing it.
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Rahul Gandhi expert in gaining political mileage: Farmers leader
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Gulbarga (Karnataka) [India] June 9 (ANI): After Rahul Gandhi met with the kin of farmers, who died in police firing during protests in Mandsaur at Madhya Pradesh-Rajasthan border, farmer leader Basavaraj Ingin on Friday lashed out at the Congress vice-president asserting that he is an exper
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Mandsaur: Rahul Gandhi meets kin of deceased farmers
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Doria(Rajasthan) [India], June 8 (ANI): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday met with the kin of farmers, who died in police firing during protests in Mandsaur at Madhya Pradesh-Rajasthan border.
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Mandsaur violence: Govt. will not do anything to betray farmers, insists R
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 8 (ANI): In the wake of the farmer's protest in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government will not take any step that will break the faith of farmers and the common man
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Congress Party in Mandsaur to express solidarity with farmers, says Sachin
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): After Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was detained on Thursday Neemuch district under Section 151, the party claimed that it was in the state of Madhya Pradesh only to express solidarity with the farmers, but the state police had opted to use brute forc
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Farmers have to become part of political agenda to resolve nation's i
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), June 8 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today asserted that the country's problems can and will be resolved only when farmers become part of the political agenda.
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