GOVERNMENT
MAHARASHTRA
Malady of Yavatmal — Cotton turns a killer
Why are cotton farmers of Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, where the annual farm turnover is often in six digits, driven to committing suicide? More than the incidence of spurious pesticides or defective seeds, as in Andhra Pradesh, it is the State mon opoly procurement scheme that has pushed them deep into debt and, now, the harsh process of loan recovery, says Sharad Joshi.
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POLITICS
Anguish of an alienated people
THE tiny north-eastern State of Manipur that Jawaharlal Nehru once described as the Jewel of the East is up in arms. With ample reason too. For long it has been the hotbed of insurgency fuelled by a complex web of ...
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Voice of protest
Activists of the CPI (M) Delhi State Committee stage a dharna against the anti-people policies of the Delhi Government in the Capital on Tuesday.
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