Kishor Tiwari, President of VNSSM, has alleged that the scam took place during the period of 2005-2015 and demanded a CBI probe into it.

Congress workers have adopted the households of nine debt-ridden Vidarbha farmers, who had committed suicide, and paid off their loans.

The cotton belt of Vidarbha reports the highest farmer suicides in the country, but the distress of women cultivators is rarely recorded.

I have even stopped visiting the field for the last 15 days, since I have lost all hope of getting any yield or compensation from the gover...

Around 85 per cent of the agricultural land in Vidarbha are non-irrigated and since the soil is black, farmers mainly opt for cotton cultiv...

VJAS, said they have demanded a Rs 30,000 crore package which would take care of the huge backlog for the region.

Farm widows have urged Narendra Modi to provide a special integrated relief and rehabilitation package as early as possible after assuming ...

Even various expert committees had factored all these in their recommendations in 2008, but the government has become apathetic, VJS presid...

Fully aware of the political gains of women power, Modi tried to strike familiar chords, speaking of female foeticide, inequality and gende...

Vidarbha farmers and widows had earlier on August 15 protested the storyline of the film and burnt effigies of producer Amir Khan.

This Friday could be the busiest day for the Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport in Nagpur, when nearly 22 special aircraft ferrying V...

This is one area Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has outperformed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The state government’s claim that farmers’ suicides in Vidarbha region are in decline has been called into question by the local NGOs and s...

It was with much fanfare that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh went to Vidarbha in June 2006 to hear the woes of the widows of farmers who had...

A young farmer committed suicide in a Maharashtra village Wednesday when his wife told him there was not a grain left in the house to cook ...

The Prime Minister on Friday announced that a comprehensive economic package would be worked out for the debt-ridden farmers.