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Rupee 1 compensation: K'taka Govt calls it 'test to avoid subsid
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 11 (ANI): Clarifying the recent reports of providing Rupee 1 subsidy to the farmers, the Karnataka Department of Revenue (District Management) on Sunday asserted that the measure was taken to test the account, to avoid input subsidy being credited to wrong
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Mandsaur violence: Deceased farmers' kin request CM Chouhan to end fa
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 10 (ANI): The families of the four farmers, who were killed in the police firing in Mandsaur, met Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today and requested him to call off his fast.
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NITI Aayog should invite Kisan Sangh for dialogue: RSS
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India] June 10 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue M.G. Vaidya on Saturday said that the NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog should invite the representatives of the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) for a dialogue to address the farmers�
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Karnataka CM writes to PM Modi asking to repeal 'unconstitutional
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): Dubbing the Centre's notification on cattle trade as 'unconstitutional and unfair', Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to repeal the new rules which would put 'enormous financial b
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State cannot progress without farmers, asserts MP CM Chouhan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh),[India] June 10 (ANI): Claiming that the majority of the population in Madhya Pradesh is dependent on farming, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said Saturday that the state cannot progress without its farmers.
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Impossible to give loan waiver to farmers, says MP Agriculture Minister
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], June 10 (ANI): Amid raging protests by farmers spiralling across Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur district, state Agriculture Minister Gauri Shankar Bisen on Saturday categorically refused to provide any relief, saying the government has already been providing
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Male farmers at high risk of contracting 'monkey malaria'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 10 (ANI): Beware! A study has found that in Malaysia, adult male farmers, involved in plantation, clearing vegetation and forestry work were four times more likely to contract monkey malaria.
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MP CM Chouhan to begin fast "for peace" to pacify agitated farme
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhopal [Madhya Pradesh) [India] June 10 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will undertake an indefinite fast "for peace" from today, in an attempt to restore peace among the farming community of the state.
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BJP stands in support of Shivraj Chouhan's indefinite fast
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): After Shivraj Singh Chouhan decided to begin an indefinite fast for peace and talks with farmers on loan waivers and better prices for their produce, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has vowed to stand in support of his initiative stating that this act of th
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BJP ordered to open fire at farmers; we can't be blamed: Congress
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): Coming down heavily on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for unnecessarily blaming the Congress for blowing the farmers protest in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh out of proportion, the grand old party asserted that they cannot be blamed, when the saffron part
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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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BJP slams Cong. over video showing its leaders inciting violence in MP
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 10 (ANI): Slamming the Congress after its leaders got caught on camera purportedly inciting party workers and farmers to burn down a police station in Madhya Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday requested the Government to immediately arre
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