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Tamil Nadu farmers' plight and their protests - A Timeline
Updated : 8 years, 6 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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Kejriwal more interested in Goa, Punjab, alleges BJP
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 23 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday trained its guns on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal following the death of a 30-year-old man after falling into a pit dug by the BSES in Delhi's Neb Sarai area and alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo w
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Palaniswami promises protesting TN farmers to speak to PM Modi
Updated : 8 years, 6 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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Protesting TN farmers drink urine at Delhi's Jantar Mantar
Updated : 8 years, 6 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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Sixth attack on Shias in Parachinar highlights growing intolerance in Paki
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Apr. 1 (ANI): The latest attack on a Shia Mosque in Parachinar in Pakistan's North West Tribal region's Khurram agency was the sixth such attack on Shias in this town since 2012 highlighting their worsening plight and other minorities living in Pakistan.
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Kanimozhi pulls up Modi Govt. for overlooking Tamil farmers' plight
Updated : 8 years, 6 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, 6 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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Kuznetsova topples Pliskova to set up all-Russian Indian Wells final
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
California [USA], Mar. 18 (ANI): Svetlana Kuznetsova toppled world number three Karolina Pliskova under the Stadium 1 lights on Friday to book her place in an all-Russian final at the Indian Wells Masters.
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Bastar journalist Santosh Yadav released from prison after 17 months
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], Mar. 8 (ANI): Bastar-based journalist Santosh Yadav who was arrested for his alleged links with the Maoist in 2015, was released from jail after 17 months on Friday, but said he will continue to highlight the plight of tribals in the area.
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We should be able to play under any conditions, not just at home: Jayasuri
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Feb. 9 (ANI): Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka's chief selector, believes that the player's inability to adjust to foreign conditions---rather than digging out flaws in the in the domestic system---was to be blamed for his side's current plight in South Africa
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PM Modi ignoring poor's plight, busy helping the rich: Rahul
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Feb. 6 (ANI): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday branded Prime Minister Narendra Modi as 'anti-farmer' and accused him of not fulfilling any of the promises made during 2014 general elections.
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'I pray Trump bans Pakistani visas': Imran Khan
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 30 (ANI): Condemning the plight of Muslims being prevented from entering the United States under President Donald Trump's immigration ban, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said that he wants the former to ban Pakistani visas also so that
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