-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: All India Kisan Sabha, the farmers’ outfit of CPI (M), has decided to hold a protest of the family members of farmers who committed Suicide in the last one year. Families of about 100 farmers, who committed Suicide, will sit in front of Parliament to protest the policies of the Narendra Modi Government on Monday. Alarming rise CPI (M) Polit Bureau member and AIKS General Secretary Hannan...
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25,000 Mathura farmers seek Prez permission to hang themselves
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: Around 25,000 farmers in Mathura have sought permission from President Pranab Mukherjee to commit Suicide on August 15 after a 17-year-long struggle to get compensation from the government. What looks to be a new trend, the development comes a day after 70 Vyapam scam accused lodged in Gwalior, around 175 kms from Mathura, raised a similar demand, citing judicial disparity. Demanding compensation against 700 acre of their lands...
More »India's Handloom Challenge Anatomy of a Crisis -Ashoke Chatterjee
-Economic and Political Weekly The Indian weaver is dismissed in high places as an embarrassing anachronism, despite demand for his or her skills and products. In the new millennium, globalisation and a mindless acquiescence to imported notions of a good life threaten to take over, even as the West looks East for better concepts of sustainable living. Analysing today's crisis in the handloom sector, plagued by low-cost imitations from power looms,...
More »Karnataka farmer Suicide rate hits highest in a decade -Nidheesh MK
-Livemint.com A total of 158 farmers killed themselves in July in the state, bringing this year’s toll of farmer Suicides to 197, the most since 2003 Bengaluru: The farmer Suicide rate in Karnataka has hit the highest level in a decade, highlighting agrarian distress in the state. A total of 158 farmers killed themselves in July alone in the state, government data showed, bringing this year’s toll of farmer Suicides to 197,...
More »Bad monsoon killing Telangana farmers, crops and water supply
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: The lack of monsoon rains is spelling doom for Telangana on three fronts: First, a drastic drop in paddy cultivation is set to trigger a massive shortage in rice production; second, with their crops more or less destroyed and the prospect of rains in the near future bleak, farmers are resorting to Suicides; and thirdly, plummeting water levels at Nagarjunsagar Dam is threatening to disrupt the...
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