In its Budget wish-list, the Agriculture Ministry has demanded lowering of interest rate on crop loans to 3% for those farmers who pay in time, from the existing 4%. According to sources, the ministry has suggested an additional one per cent interest subvention (subsidy) on short-term crop loans of up to Rs 3 lakh to farmers who pay their dues on time. Other farmers get crop loans at seven per...
04:12 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Amethi: Striking a cord with the farmers and people of his constituency, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday gave them the credit for the political lessons that he has learnt. The Congress general secretary said that he has returned to his "home" after touring the entire state in the past two months. "Whatever I have learnt is from my visits to the houses of farmers in Amethi. whatever I know...
10:02 PM, Feb 11, 2012
San Diego: A stunned Brandt Snedeker experienced a roller-coaster ride of emotions on his way to an unexpected playoff victory over fellow American Kyle Stanley in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines on Sunday. Just over an hour after believing he had secured second place in the PGA Tour event, Snedeker took advantage of a last-hole blunder by Stanley in regulation to triumph for a third time on the...
10:33 AM, Jan 30, 2012
San Diego: Kyle Stanley overpowered Torrey Pines and opened a five-shot lead in the Farmers Insurance Open on Saturday. About the only regret for Stanley was missing a 4-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole that would have broken the 54-hole tournament record set by Tiger Woods in 1998, before Rees Jones beefed up the South Course for the 2008 US Open. Stanley still managed a 4-under 68, a spot...
01:43 PM, Jan 29, 2012
San Diego, California: Arjun Atwal, playing on the tough South Course at Torrey Pines, had a nightmarish round with a card of five-over 77 that left him well outside the cut after the second round of the Farmers Insurance at Torrey Pines on Friday. Atwal's good work of five-under 67 was all undone with a round that had seven bogeys and just two birdies, and he finished the two rounds...
01:41 PM, Jan 28, 2012
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11:17 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Howrah: The Congress, an ally of the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, on Tuesday demanded that the state government should pay compensation to the families of farmers who had committed suicide. "The state government should not only pay compensation to the families of farmers who committed suicide, but should also take steps to prevent such recurrences," WBPCC president Pradip Bhattacharya said. "It is the duty of the state government...
03:49 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Kolkata: Terming the reports of farmers' suicides incorrect, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday rejected a proposal of a probe by an all-party team into the matter. Communist Party of India (CPI) legislator from Midnapore Prabodh Panda who met Banerjee at the secretariat with his proposal, said she had rejected his proposal as the reports of suicide were "untrue". "Banerjee said that after inquiring the matter she found...
12:39 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the CPI(M) of launching a false campaign against her government over the issue of farmers' death. "Whenever anyone is committing suicide, he is being claimed to be a farmer. If anyone commits suicide, can it be called a farmer's suicide. As per the reports I have during the tenure of the present government only one farmer had died, the rest...
03:11 AM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Governor MK Naryanan has refuted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that no farmers have committed suicides. He said the matter needs to be addressed urgently. "There is no denying the fact that farmers have committed suicide and that they are in debt. We need to do something about it," Narayanan said. He was outspoken on the issue of crib deaths too, calling them a matter of...
01:15 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Vijay Pratap Singh has not just made farming easier but also helped in facilitating micro-finance for the those who need it. ...
09:46 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Kolkata: Expressing concern over recurring suicide of farmers in West Bengal, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said on Friday these were pointer to the "misrule" of the Trinamool Congress-led government in the state. "The TC-led government in West Bengal has perpetrated misrule and our party's central committee has expressed serious concern over farmers' suicide which rose to 24," Karat told reporters at the end of the party's 4-day central committee...
07:03 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback to sugar mill owners on Tuesday, the Supreme Court directed private mill owners to pay approximately Rs 1000 crores to UP sugarcane farmers. The state government had fixed a particular price for sugarcane farmers a few years back, because of which a backlog of nearly one thousand crore rupees turned up. The matter was challenged in court. VM Singh, petitioner in the Supreme Court, said...
01:28 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Bangalore: Cows and sheep took the government by its horns on Tuesday. At the Bangalore Development Authority's head-office, just off the road to the airport and barely a kilometre from the Chief Minister's residence, farmers staged a protest along with their families and their cattle. They want higher compensation for their land along the 63-km-long Peripheral Ring Road being built by the BDA. And while the jury is still not...
11:52 AM, Jan 11, 2012
Nizamabad: YSR Congress leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy began his fast on Tuesday night on farmers' issues at Armoor in Nizamabad district of Telangana region amid protests by Telangana supporters. Alleging that Jagan has an anti-Telangana stance, the statehood supporters squatted on the roads, burnt tyres, pelted stones on his convoy and voiced their protest in various other forms at several places while he was on his way to Armoor...
11:36 PM, Jan 10, 2012
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