-TheCitizens.in NEW DELHI: The struggle of the debt and drought trapped farmers of Tamil Nadu has entered its 107th day. The farmers, facing an acute agrarian crisis during which many committed suicide, travelled to Delhi on March 14, optimistic that their voice would be heard. After 41 days they returned to Tamil Nadu on April 23 after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palanisamy met and assured them that their grievances would...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 979
In loan waiver shocker, farmers of Uttar Pradesh get relief of 19 paise -Haidar Naqvi and Brajendra K Parashar
-Hindustan Times Many farmers have been left bewildered as the Uttar Pradesh government headed by chief minister Yogi Adityanath follows up on its poll promise of waving farm loans. Kanpur/ Lucknow: Ishwar Dayal, a marginal farmer of Bhartana in Etawah of Uttar Pradesh, was in for a shock when he was handed over by district officials a certificate saying his outstanding farm loan amounting to 19 paise has been waived. He says he...
More »Challenging VVPAT machines wrongly will land you in jail -Ankur Sirothia
-The Times of India BHOPAL: Challenging the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines, which are used during polling to verify that the vote cast by a person goes to the correct candidate, would land a person in jail, if it is found that the machine is working fine. The issue has come to light as the election commission is planning to make the people in MP aware of the machine...
More »Over 4.5 million Maharashtra farmers enrol for farm loan waiver -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil
-Livemint.com 3.9 million of these 4.5 million Maharashtra farmers applied for farm loan waivers online Mumbai: Even as Opposition Parties in Maharashtra continue to criticize the online procedure to identify the beneficiaries of farm loan waiver, farmers themselves have responded in large numbers to the initiative. By 30 August, more than 4.5 million farmers in the state had enrolled for the scheme and nearly 3.9 million of them had submitted their online...
More »No information on how much black money removed by note ban, says RBI
-PTI NEW DELHI: The RBI has told a parliamentary panel that it has "no information" on how much black money has been extinguished as a result of demonetisation of Rs 500/1,000 notes or about unaccounted cash legitimised through exchange of currency post note ban. Stating that an estimated Rs 15.28 lakh crore in junked notes has come back "subject to future corrections based on verification process", the Reserve Bank also said it...
More »
