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VIDARBHA CRISIS
Worst heatwave ahead? IMD warns of 43°C+ temperatures across UP, MP, Rajasthan; Severe conditions to grip many states this week. Check full forecastThe India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a nationwide heatwave alert in India, warning of a 2–4°C rise in temperatures across n...- Uma Bharti assures help for 132 irrigation projects in MaharashtraIn a shot in the arm for the Maharashtra government, the Union ministry of water resources has agreed to take up 132 irrigation projects in...
- Vidarbha crisis: Rains destroy 50,000 hectares of cropsOranges, Mangoes, Banana, Papaya crops were damaged in 2,340.87 hectares and abut 3,416 horticulturists were affected.
- 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" .
- Budget 2015: Vidarbha farmers demand time bound budgetary allocationsMaharashtra's Vidarbha region has witnessed hundreds of suicides by the farmers in the past due to debt, drought and crop failure.
- Vidarbha farm widows await steps by PM Narendra Modi on agrarian crisisFarm widows have urged Narendra Modi to provide a special integrated relief and rehabilitation package as early as possible after assuming ...
- Vidarbha farmers' widows to protest on Women's Day tomorrowEven various expert committees had factored all these in their recommendations in 2008, but the government has become apathetic, VJS presid...
- Politicians should spend time on devp work: KalamFormer President A P J Abdul Kalam, said politicians should concentrate and spend more time towards developmental work.
- Cong-NCP can only gain in VidarbhaCong-NCP were decimated in the 2004 polls in Vidarbha.
- Loan waiver brings little cheer to Vidarbha farmersMaharashtra government has doled out another debt waiver to farmers but the critical region of Vidarbha is not happy.
- Relief may still elude many in land of farm suicidesThe expanded farm debt waiver plan cleared by the Union Cabinet on Friday is unlikely to bring cheer to the farmers in Vidarbha, the ground...
- Loan waiver yet to trickle down to desperate farmersWith fresh agri season just a month away, banks have not yet been given instructions about the loan waiver and as a result, farmers are dep...
- Vidarbha faces looming fertiliser crisisAgricultural districts in Maharashtra, which have been the mainstay of largescale foodgrain supplies to retail majors such as Reliance Fres...
- It's winter of discontent as farm suicides dog DF govtApart from the proposed repeal of the Urban Land Ceiling and Regulation Act, farm suicides in Vidarbha and a demand for debt waiver for far...
- State to spruce up farm reliefThe Vilasrao Deshmukh government, constantly under scrutiny over farm suicides in Vidarbha, has decided to pull up its socks to prevent the...
- Farming does kill, no matter how you say itEarlier this month, when the state told the Prime Minister’s Office that farm suicides in Vidarbha were on the decline, it had the right st...
- BJP, Cong lock horns over farmer suicidesThe crisis of farmer suicides in Vidarbha has triggered a bitter political confrontation between the BJP and the Congress.
- Guv wants price stabilisation fund for farmersThe Maharashtra governor, SM Krishna, has recommended setting up a price stabilisation fund to insulate farmers from distress sale resorted...
- Farmers look forward to PM's visitThe debt-ridden farmers of the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, were eagerly awaiting the arrival of Manmohan Singh, who they hope will offe...
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