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J.B. Murry was a Georgia sharecropper when a religious vision at 70 led him to start painting; 10 years later, his work had entered major US museum collectionsJ.B. Murry was a self-taught African-American artist who began painting after retiring from farming. He experienced a vision at the age of ...- Link fertiliser subsidies to area & crop productivity: ICRIERIndia is recommended to shift from product-based fertiliser subsidies to direct support for farmers to improve soil health. It involves int...
- Dolly Parton’s early life: How she went from writing songs at 5 to performing at the Grand Ole Opry at 13Dolly Parton, born into a poor family in Tennessee, started her music career at a very young age. She wrote her first song when she was fiv...
- NABARD brings banks, government together to ease Kisan Credit Card access in DelhiNabin Kumar Roy, Chief General Manager, NABARD, emphasised that enhancing farmers access to Kisan Credit Cards remains a priority and calle...
- Shivraj Singh Chouhan asks states to meet farm targets on time; warns against ‘eating, meeting and sitting’Chouhan said states would have to deliver on commitments made during the conference, including deadlines for Farmer ID generation and other...
- Earned just $1 a day. Rejected by Marine Corps for being short. How Audie Murphy became America’s most decorated soldier and a huge film star, playing himself in a blockbuster that earned over $10 millionHonoured and decorated army veteran who slayed many enemy soldiers singlehandedly, successful movie star to popular songwriter. Though he d...
- Odisha: BJD plans legal action, public demonstrations against Mines and Minerals (Amendment) BillOdisha's BJD party is planning legal action and public demonstrations against the recently passed Mines and Minerals (Amendment) Bill, whic...
- West Bengal examining land law reforms to ease industrial expansion: OfficialWest Bengal plans land law reforms to aid industrial land acquisition. The government seeks to simplify processes for recorded sharecropper...
- View: Give income support, not fertiliser subsidyFertiliser subsidy is paid to fertiliser companies, which are free to set ‘reasonable’ prices. This must change. With the direct benefit tr...
- Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity to support farmers' Bharat BandhIt is an independent union of agricultural labourers, sharecroppers, marginal farmers and plantation workers.
- Bengal co-op banks lent Rs 36,000 crore in last 5 years: WB Fin Min Amit MitraIn a bid to bring unbanked areas under the institutional credit network, the Bengal state government will provide space inside panchayat of...
- Odisha to implement PM-KISAN; farmers to benefit from central and state schemesChief minister Naveen Patnaik’s government had earlier been noncommittal on the PM’s farm intervention scheme as well.
- NITI Aayog mulling big reforms in agriculture sectorNITI Aayog is considering a series of big ticket agriculture reforms that include changes in the fertiliser policy to allow free import of ...
- Public farewell for BB King to be held in Las Vegas on FridayA public viewing and farewell to BB King will take place on Friday in Las Vegas, where he had a home and passed away in his sleep at the ag...
- Anti-people policies of UPA forced me to come out: MamataWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today claimed that the 'anti-people policies' of the UPA compelled her quit the alliance.
- Land-losers begin to dream again in SingurAshok Ghosh, who owns 1.5 bighas said he had never supported the Tata Motors project. "Outsiders had good jobs and not the poor people."
- Farm credit surges, so does moneylenders' hegemonyThe number of farmers borrowing from moneylenders has risen to levels not seen since independence, despite doubling of agricultural credit ...
- Orissa: Two more farmers commit suicide, toll goes up to 9Two more farmers on Thursday committed suicide in Orissa, taking the total number of such deaths to nine in the state in the last one month.
- Bihar dy CM at wit’s end over sharecroppersSenior BJP leader and deputy chief minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi is again in the eye of a storm. The bataidari (sharecroppers) issue ...
- Why Singur rehabilitation package is exemplarySome sections of the media have been reporting that UPA government is close to finalising a national rehabilitation policy. These reports s...
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