NewsRack: leigh/Suicides/All-Rural-Suicides

Farmer commits suicide - Deccan Herald: District

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The deceased is identified as Srinivas (30), son of R Krishnamurthy. He had borrowed a loan of Rs 60,000 from Indian Overseas Bank, Lingadahalli branch and Rs 3 lakh from other sources and had invested the same into his 4 acre farm land.Since he had suffered massive crop loss this year, it is said that he resorted to committing suicide. A case has been registered with Lingadahalli police.

Youth from State dies in London - Hindu: Andhra Pradesh

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Oppn parties stage walk out over handloom weavers' issue - New Kerala: Andhra Pradesh

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Maharashtra braces for a stormy budget session - New Kerala: Maharashtra

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Maharashtra braces for a stormy budget session - Sify News

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Maharashtra is bracing for a stormy budget session of the state assembly, starting Thursday, with the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) opposition in an aggressive mood to take the ruling Democratic Front government to task on a variety of issues.

Budget session of Mah Legislature to begin tomorrow - New Kerala: Maharashtra

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Back to our roots, eating healthy - Citizen Matters

Theresa Varghese — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

On a bright Sunday during the first week of this month, Namma Santhe - Navachetana Trust's first organic market, with 20 odd stalls selling vegetables and fruits, spice mixes, packaged health products, herbal plants, and eco friendly bags, attracted a mixed crowd. Middle class couples hoping for fresh produce and interesting pickles, a considerable number of the elite who had developed an interest in sustainable living, and the common man curious as to what the whole thing was about.

One could hear occasional grumbles about the setting - the grounds of a school in Vidyaranyapura in north Bangalore. When some visitors…

'Aamir thought Peepli Live! was a big joke' - Rediff: Movies

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Anusha Rizvi, former NDTV producer talks about her directorial debut with Peepli Live! produced by Aamir Khan.

‘ಎಕರೆಗೆ ೧೨ ಲಕ್ಷ ಕೊಟ್ಟರೆ ಭೂಮಿ’ - ಕನ್ನಡ ಪ್ರಭ

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

‘ಎಕರೆಗೆ ೧೨ ಲಕ್ಷ ಕೊಟ್ಟರೆ ಭೂಮಿ’

Uproar in Bihar Assembly over maize crop failure - Hindu: Other States

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Distressed Congress stages walkout - New Indian Express

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Distressed Congress stages walkout

Loans, substandard seeds lets farmers down in Bihar - Deccan Herald: News

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Loans, substandard seeds lets farmers down in Bihar

Farmer suicide on the rise in Orissa - NDTV National

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Forty-three farmers killed themselves towards the end of 2009. Nearly half of them were from Western Orissa.

Mother, three children suicide - New Indian Express

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Mother, three children suicide

ದ್ಯುತ್‌ ಕ್ಷಾಮ, ರೈತರ ಫಸಲು ನಿರ್ನಾಮ - ಕನ್ನಡ ಪ್ರಭ

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

ದ್ಯುತ್‌ ಕ್ಷಾಮ, ರೈತರ ಫಸಲು ನಿರ್ನಾಮ

Caught in a debt trap, they weave own death - TOI: Cities

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The dazzling beautiful silk sari lies in the corner of a room in Shyamala’s house. This was a gift from her weaver husband. But it was the same sari that her husband Seela Narayanaswamy, 48, used to hang himself at their home in this weavers town last fortnight.

Potato gives way to ginger in Hassan - Hindu: Karnataka

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Rs 2.32 crore graft in Fisheries Department - Deccan Herald: State

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Rs 2.32 crore graft in Fisheries Department

Crop failure, borrowings did Balangir farmer in - New Indian Express

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Crop failure, borrowings did Balangir farmer in

States in one-upmanship on crop loan rates - Business Standard

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

In their efforts to show that their hearts bleed the most for farmers, several state governments are turning competitive in providing crop loans at concessional or even zero rates of interest.

Interpreting the colour green - Op Ed

publisher1@dc.com — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Ecologists like me are called “greens”. We work to protect the green mantle of the earth — forests and biodiversity, soil and water. Nature’s green capital is the real capital that supports all life, and in the final analysis all livelihoods and the entire economy. However, the colour green has been much abused and used for anti-green, anti-nature, anti-people programmes.

The first abus

Artisans, vendors fall prey to moneylenders - Anantapur

publisher1@dc.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Anantapur, March 8: Private moneylenders are fleecing public with exorbitant interest rates in Anantapur district. Many people, who are unable to repay their loans are leaving their native villages and some others are committing suicide.
Usury is flourishing in Anantapur, Tadipatri, Dharmavaram, Hindupur and Rayadurgam with small traders, artisans and petty vendors falling prey to this menace.

Shiv Sena attacks govt on farmers' suicide issue - PTI: All news

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Shiv Sena attacks govt on farmers' suicide issue

CPI(M): ban futures trading of essentials - Hindu: National

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

किसान ने कीटनाशक निगला, राजिंदरा में भर्ती - दैनिक भास्कर

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

किसान ने कीटनाशक निगला, राजिंदरा में भर्ती