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K'taka: Police tightens security at KRS Dam as farmers' protest enters day
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Mandya (Karnataka), Jun 28 (ANI): Farmers' protest in Mandya entered into the eighth day on Friday as the state government deployed additional forces to tighten security around Krishna Raja Sagara (KRS) Dam.
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K'taka: Farmers hold protest during Kumaraswamy's 'Janatha Darshan' progra
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Bidar (Karnataka) [India], Jun 27 (ANI): Karnataka farmers on Thursday held protest during Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy's 'Janatha Darshan' program here in Ujalamba village.
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Priyanka hits out at CM Yogi for not clearing pending dues of sugarcane fa
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday hit out at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath led BJP government in the state for not clearing the dues of sugarcane farmers.
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Karnataka: Farmers protest in front of bank over auctioning of pledged jew
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Mandya (Karnataka) [India], June 27 (ANI): Farmers protested in front of a bank in Mandya on Thursday after it apparently announced the auctioning of pledged jewellery.
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Uddhav Thackeray urges Shiv Sena workers to help solve farmers issues
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 26 (ANI): Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday urged his party workers to stand shoulder to shoulder with farmers and help in solving their problem.
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Bengaluru: Mandya farmers' protest over water crisis enters 6th day
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Bengaluru/Mandaya (Karnataka) [India], June 26 (ANI): The farmers protest in Mandya entered the sixth day on Wednesday. The farmers have been demanding diversion of Cauvery and Hemavati waters to their canals in order to save their produce.
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Farmer who committed suicide wasn't under debt: Sachin Pilot
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], June 25 (ANI): The farmer who committed suicide recently in Sri Ganganagar district "wasn't actually under debt", Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot said on Tuesday.
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K'taka: Farmers' strike enters day 5; Irrigation Min says 'nothing in our
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Mandya (Karnataka) [India], June 25 (ANI): The indefinite strike by the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) members demanding Cauvery and Hemavati waters to be channelised for saving standing crops entered the fifth day on Tuesday.
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Rajasthan Min hits out at Gehlot for not waiving farmer loans
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Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Jun 25 (ANI): Deputy Leader of Opposition in Rajasthan Assembly Rajendra Singh Rathore on Tuesday claimed that farmers are committing suicide as the Ashok Gehlot-led government has failed to fulfill its loan-waiver promise.
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Struggling with water crisis, Hisar seeks merger with Rajasthan
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Hisar (Haryana) [India], June 25 (ANI): The locals and the farmers of Hisar district have decided to approach the Rajasthan government to seek a merger of their region with the state as the Haryana government has failed to resolve the issue of drinking water shortage.
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Mandya farmers protest over water crisis enters 4th day, Kumaraswamy asks
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Bengaluru/Mandya (Karnataka) [India], June 24 (ANI): As farmers protest over water entered the fourth day, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday shifted onus to the Centre and asked it to direct the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) to resolve the issue.
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Bundelkhand: Farmers perform rituals to please rain god
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Bundelkhand (Uttar Pradesh [India], June 24 (ANI): As drought takes roots in Gopalpur village situated in Kanpur, farmers performed rituals in order to please the rain god and get sufficient rainfall this year.
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