How BJP’s farm loan waiver politics in UP created trouble for Fadnavis
Nagpur/Mumbai: After facing severe water scarcity last year, Maharashtra saw a fairly good monsoon and the rains in October helped many farmers have a good season for crops after the long spell of drought in Marathwada. Probably that's why this year,...
Another shame for BJP: Party MP likes farmers’ suicide to fashion trend, not agrarian crisis
Nagpur/Mumbai: At a time when the entire nation is fuming with the fire of JNU politics targeting the BJP government at the Centre, a BJP MP from North Mumbai added to the government’s embarrassment by coming up with the most...
Total 3,228 farmers ended lives in 2015 in Maharashra
Mumbai/Nagpur: Figures provided by Relief and Rehabilitation department of Maharashtra government have revealed that the total number of farmers, who ended their lives last year(2015) in Maharashtra stands at 3,228. The state government told the Bombay High Court on Thursday that...
Unable to Feed 5 Children, Farmer Sets Herself on Fire in Drought-Hit Marathwada
OSMANABAD/NAGPUR: A 40-year-old woman farmer in Maharashtra's drought-hit Marathwada region, with nothing to eat, no work to do and faced with the reality of feeding five children, has committed suicide. Manisha Gatkal, a farmer in Marathwada's Osmanabad district, doused herself with...
‘Pay Me for My Sugarcane Or I’ll Kill Myself’: Farmer to Devendra Fadnavis
A farmer in Parabhani threatened to commit suicide in front of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. Parbhani/Nagpur: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, on a tour of the drought-hit Marathwada region of his state, was stunned today when a farmer told...
