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Tamil Nadu farmers' plight and their protests - A Timeline
Updated : 8 years, 7 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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TN farmers issue must be taken up at state level: Centre
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai [India], Apr 23 (ANI): Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said the issue regarding the ongoing agitation of Tamil Nadu farmers seeking loan waiver concerns the state, adding the matter should, therefore, be taken up by the state government.
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GST, doubling farmers' income on agenda as PM chairs NITI Aayog meet
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 23 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is currently chairing the third meeting of the NITI Aayog's Governing Council at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, wherein, action taken on decisions of the earlier two meetings, are being discussed in detail with special focus on the
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Palaniswami promises protesting TN farmers to speak to PM Modi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 23 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Sunday urged the farmers protesting at Jantar Mantar for the last 39 days to call off their protest and said that he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and submit a memorandum highlighting their plight.
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Punjab: BSF helps Pakistani farmers at Attari
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Atari (Punjab) [India], Apr 22 (ANI): Putting aside the strained ties between India and Pakistan, the Border Security Force (BSF) deployed in Punjab's Atari sector extended a beautiful gesture by helping Pakistani farmers on Saturday after wheat harvested by them flew across border due
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Protesting TN farmers drink urine at Delhi's Jantar Mantar
Updated : 8 years, 7 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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Stalin demands emergency assembly session over TN farmers' issue
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India] Apr 19 (ANI): Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) working president M.K. Stalin on Wednesday demanded the Tamil Nadu Speaker to convene an emergency assembly session to discuss the farmers' loan waiver issue.
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PM Modi aims to double income of farmers by 2022
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Botad (Gujarat) [India], Apr 17 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the government is working towards invigorating the agriculture sector with new technology, so that the income of farmers can be doubled by 2022.
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SC allows TN farmers to file intervention application in suicide cases
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 17 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the protesting Tamil Nadu farmers to file an intervention application in the farmers suicide cases.
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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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BJP rubbishes Samajwadi Party's allegation post farm-loan waiver
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr. 14 (ANI): Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Friday rubbished the Samajwadi Party's charges that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to fulfill the promises made to the farmers and said that the opposition has been leveling baseless a
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Hema Malini drinks daily, has she committed suicide: Maharashtra MLA on fa
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Nanded (Maharashtra) [India], Apr. 14 (ANI): Taking a bizarre take on farmers' suicide, independent MLA from Maharashtra Bacchu Kadu sparked controversy by dragging Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha MP Hema Malini into the row.
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