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Rs 17/day not sufficient for farmers: TRS
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Feb 02 (ANI): The Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) on Saturday dubbed the Centre's interim budget as an "election-based budget," adding that the scheme to provide Rs 6000 per annum for farmers, which boils down to Rs 17 per day, is not enough to address their
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Shah takes potshot at Congress’ farm loan waiver, says govt's Kisan Samman
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 01 (ANI): Aiming a thinly-veiled jibe at the Congress over their farm-loan waivers, BJP president Amit Shah on Friday said that the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi is a more long-term solution for farmers’ plights and will play a big role in doubling their i
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Pakistan's struggle against Proteas is not something new: Akram
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Jan 9 (ANI): Pakistan cricket team are on the verge of a clean sweep in the ongoing three-match Test series against South Africa as they are trailing 2-0. Their former skipper Wasim Akram has, however, normalised their plight saying this is "not something new" for the tea
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Congress MPs sell potatoes outside Parliament to raise farmers' plight
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 4 (ANI): Several Congress MPs on Friday staged a protest outside Parliament premises on Friday, selling potatoes to raise issues concerning Punjab farmers.
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K'tka: NCW to set inquiry committee to probe bonded women labourers case
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India] Jan 3 (ANI): The National Commission for Women (NCW) has decided to constitute an inquiry committee to investigate into the plight and condition of the bonded women labourers recently rescued from a plantation in Savanthahalli Village, Karnataka.
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No govt. can survive without farmers: former PM Gowda
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Nov 29 (ANI) : Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) JDS chief HD Deve Gowda who joined the farmers' protest at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should personally take note of farmer's plight.
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Ahead of MP polling, Rahul promises schemes for farmers, youths, women
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 27 (ANI): With Madhya Pradesh going to assembly polls on Wednesday, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday promised schemes for the welfare of the state's farmers, women, and youths, while focusing on their plight under Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Bhar
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Sewage worker death: Swacch Bharat a 'hollow slogan', says Rahul
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 19 (ANI): Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Swacch Bharat' as a "hollow slogan" and accused him of turning a blind eye to the plight of thousands of manual scavengers.
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BJP MP seeks formation of National Commission for Men
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 3 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Lok Sabha member Harinarayan Rajbhar has batted for a National Commission for Men to highlight the plight of 'men suffering at the hands of their wives'.
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Keralite sacked from Gulf firm over insensitive remarks about flood victim
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Dubai [UAE], Aug 20 (ANI): A Gulf firm has fired a man from Kerala after he made insensitive comments on a social media post on the plight of the flood-hit victims in the state.
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No-Confidence Motion: Mulayam questions Centre on unemployment, farmers pl
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday raised the issues of unemployment and farmers plight in his speech during the proceeding of the No-Confidence Motion in Lok Sabha.
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Nadeem Nusrat raises concern over plight of Pak's religious minorities
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington, D.C. [USA], Jul 14 (ANI): South Asia Minorities Alliance Foundation (SAMAF) chairman Nadeem Nusrat has said that religious and ethnic minorities in Pakistan are facing systematic persecution at the hands of extremist groups, who clearly seem to enjoy Pakistani "deep state's" patr
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