Around 64% of suicide victims in 2021 had annual income of under Rs 1 lakh and around 31% of men dying by suicides were daily wage earners. Maharashtra reported the highest number of suicides among all the states, followed...
The once economically prosperous state is now in the grip of unending farm distress. What ails the state and why has no government been able to do anything?
Deve Gowda has been in public life for nearly seven decades. He started at the very bottom, as a member of the Holenarasipur Taluk Development Board and reached the very top as India's 11th prime minister, in 1996.
The scheme, approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will also facilitate PACS to diversify their business and undertake multiple activities and services
For the majority of farmers, growing the country’s food brings no assurance of well-being. Seven decades after independence, swings between glut and scarcity remain largely unpredictable, making agriculture unviable...
Human rights organisation wants to ensure that the loved ones of several farm families get clarity and closure on the whereabouts of their ward; four such cases have come to light, in two of them the writ has been filed in...
Heatwave-driven mental health disorders and farmer suicides are steeply on the rise but authorities are yet to take concrete steps
Between April and December 2020, production zoomed by almost 12%, compared to a negative 12.8% during the same period in the previous years: CARE Ratings
The deceased has been identified as one Rajbir from Haryana. He died by hanging self from a tree, police said
According to his family members, Ramji Lal was slapped by the Electricity Department officials and was served an inflated power bill.
A Sikh preacher, Sant Ram Singh, had also allegedly ended his life near the Singhu border protest site claiming that he was 'unable to bear the pain of the...
Amarinder Singh's suicide makes it the 4th case of suicide at the protest site so far.
In a purported suicide note, Singh said he was sacrificing his life in support of the farmers' agitation and to compel government to listen to the voice of the...
Owing to blockade of roads to Delhi, prices of vegetables have gone down in Amritsar and adjoining districts
65-year-old Niranjan Singh was admitted to the Rohtak’s PGIMS and his condition is stated to be stable
Gurlabh Singh had been part of the farmers' protest at the Delhi border and is believed to have consumed poisonous substance
'The Union government has not assured farmers the MSP of their produce and there is no provision for it in the agricultural laws passed by the Centre', Tikait...
Kavitha Kuruganti, an activist working on improving farm livelihoods, explains why the new farm laws are anti-farmer.
The AAP government has denied permission to Delhi Police to convert the city's stadiums into temporary jails as farmers continued to push towards the national...
'Only a coward who can't take care of his wife and children commits suicide,' BC Patil says in a public address in Kodagu district.
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The initiative aims at imparting knowledge and organisational skills to primary cooperative societies
‘If there are flaws in the implementation of MSP, rectify it but don’t destroy the entire system,’ Rahul Gandhi urged the central government.
The Congress alleged that the BJP leaders continued to address the public meeting even after the death of the farmer.
The farmer organisations’ representatives also announced to continue their 'rail roko' agitation against the three agri laws despite an appeal by Chief...
Railway authorities says, 14 pairs of special trains will remain suspended from September 24 till 26 amidst farmers protest in Punjab against farm bills.
