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MAHARASHTRA AGRARIAN CRISIS
Rs 10.9 lakh crore burden: Iran shock can take a load off India's backRising oil prices triggered by the Iran conflict are pushing India to accelerate its shift away from fossil fuels, with the government fast...- Maharashtra farmer sells 25 sacks, gets nothing, asked to pay Re 1 insteadA farmer from Paithan, Maharashtra, received just Re 1 after selling 25 sacks of onions. This incident underscores the severe agrarian cris...
- Congress seeks blanket farm loan waiver; says government has money for big projects but not for farmersSenior Congress leaders in Maharashtra criticized the Mahayuti government. They alleged betrayal of farmers and demanded immediate loan wai...
- Wealthy politicians identifying as farmers amid agrarian crisis in MaharashtraMany prominent Maharashtra politicians are identifying as farmers while reporting large assets in their election affidavits. This includes ...
- 808 Maharashtra farmer suicides in first four months of 2019The year 2018-19 has been challenging for farmers, with 42% of talukas in Maharashtra facing a severe drought.
- Maharashtra agrarian crisis- Farmers to resume protestsThe loan waiver announced by the Maharashtra government is not helping farmers. In fact, even now farmers are committing suicides as they a...
- Fashion among farmers to commit suicide, says BJP MP Gopal ShettyThe remarks come at a time when Maharashtra is reeling under an agrarian crisis with 124 farmers committing suicide in the state since Janu...
- Taskforce on Maharashtra agrarian crisis submits report to governmentIt includes improving educational facilities in farm suicide area, zero pendency and corruption free local governance, as well as job creat...
- Strife due to agrarian crisis worsensOne farmer in Gujarat lost his life and nine others were injured across the country in the 74 incidents of violence reported by the intelli...
- Incidents of violence due to farm crisis jump 100% in 6 monthsAs many as 74 incidents of violence have been reported due to agrarian crisis during January-June in 2015, a 100 per cent jump from the las...
- Maharashtra government-appointed panel suggests ways to address agrarian crisisChief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had recently constituted a panel under activist and Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti chief Kishore Tiwari.
- Opposition begins debate on agrarian crisis in Maharashtra Legislative CouncilThe Maharashtra government and the Opposition today agreed to discuss the issue of waiving off farmers' loans in the Legislative Council to...
- Two Maharashtra districts to be free of farmer suicides: Devendra FadnavisIn next two years, state's two districts -- Yavatmal and Osmanabad would be free of farmer suicides, said Maharashtra Chief Minister Devend...
- Vidarbha farmer's widow Kalavati wants Rahul Gandhi to help her sonsAway from the limelight of Rahul's latest visit to the agrarian crisis-affected Amravati district, 59-year-old Kalavati still remembers the...
- Fadnavis back after deals with IsraelFadnavis had appealed to Israel's defence companies to set up manufacturing units in his state and also met officials at Israel Aerospace I...
- Devendra Fadnavis talks bilateral cooperation with Israeli PM Benjamin NetanyahuIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today promised to explore cooperation with Maharashtra in a range of fields, including defence pr...
- Ahead of Rahul Gandhi's tour, another farmer ends life in AmravatiA day ahead of the Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's day-long padyatra in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra to highlight the agrarian...
- Multiple factors responsible for farmers' suicide in country: ReportA book on farmer suicides in India reveals that they are caused by multiple factors that lead an individual to a state of helplessness.
- Budget 2015: No healing touch to distressed farmers in Vidarbha: VJASThis year, the Maha govt officially declared that 60 per cent of its villages were facing a "severe drought" .
- Maharashtra agrarian crisis massive: Vidarbha Jan Andolan SamitiStanding crop on more than two million hectares in Maharashtra has been damaged due to "unprecedented" agrarian crisis, Vidarbha Jan Andola...
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