-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Right to life outweighed right to do business with the Supreme Court on Monday rejecting State Bank of India's petition challenging an Allahabad high court order directing sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh to sell the sugar stock hypothecated to SBI against loans to pay sugarcane farmers' dues. Sugar mills had taken loans totaling Rs 3,000 crore from SBI by hypothecating their sugar stock. Under law, the...
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Farmer Suicides haven't gone up in Maharashtra: Why is Modi tweaking data? -MK Venu
-FirstPost.com Farmer Suicides haven't gone up in Maharashtra: Why is Modi tweaking data? Prime Minister Narendra Modi is aggressively attempting to make the high incidence of farmers's Suicide in Maharashtra an important election issue. The BJP is probably trying to make inroads in rural Maharashtra where it is not known to be strong traditionally. Modi has quoted government statistics to suggest Maharashtra has had more than 10 farmers committing Suicide every day. Needless...
More »Grim tales of agrarian distress -R Avadhani
-The Hindu Sangareddy (Telengana): As many as 44 farmers have committed Suicides in the last few months in Medak district after taking loans from private financiers Rachaboyina Balagoud was 55 years and belonged to Mylaram village in Wargal mandal. He had about one-and-a-half acres of land. He took loans to the tune of Rs. 12 lakh from various sources, including banks, and a private financer. He had sunk as many as 12...
More »The cotton blow to farmers -S Harpal Singh
-The Hindu ADILABAD (Telengana): With 40 Suicides in 100 days, there is an urgent need for farmers to focus on other crops. The scale of finance for cotton is Rs. 24,000 per acre for un-irrigated crop while for red gram, black gram and green gram it is Rs. 11,000, Rs. 9,500 and Rs. 9,750 per acre. Adilabad seems to be holding onto to its position among the top ranking districts in the...
More »SC notice to Centre on farmers' Suicide
-CNN-IBN New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the central government on a petition seeking direction to take steps to prevent the increasing number of Suicides by the farmer in different parts of the country on account of their difficult financial conditions. There is a Suicide by a farmer in distress every 32 minute, the plea said. Seeking the government's response over growing incidence of Suicides by farmers, the bench...
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