Bihar Farmers

Makhana, a seed from the water lily plant, has transformed from a regional Indian snack into a global superfood sensation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday release the 17th instalment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme, amounting to over Rs 20,000 crores, will be distributed to approximately 9.26 crore beneficiary farmers through Direc

The Nitish Kumar-led NDA government secured 129 votes in the test of strength amid opposition walkout in Bihar assembly.

As a child obsessed with sports, Durga Singh would run in the wide open spaces around the fields in her remote village of Belwa Thakurai in Gopalganj district of Bihar.

Amid rising air pollution caused by the burning of crop residue, the Bihar government has decided to identify farmers who are indulging in this practice and put up their names at the block offices, officials said on Saturday.

The situation has worsened so much that the farmers are not even getting labourers to extract potatoes from the potato fields.

An upwardly mobile farmer in Bihar was on Tuesday reprimanded by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for using too many "English words" while narrating his exciting life journey.

Former Bihar chief minister Sushil Modi has lashed out at the "insensitive" Mahagathbandhan government a day after the midnight violence in the Buxar district of the state in which a large group of farmers clashed with police

The police crackdown was against a group of farmers who had been on protest for the last two months, demanding better rates for their land being acquired by a state-run power company.

A 72-year-old farmer from Bihar underwent a surgery at a private hospital here for the removal of a "coconut-sized" tumour from his thyroid gland, with doctors saying there were multiple challenges, including saving the patient's voice.

The farmers allege that the advisor is working hand in glove with the fertiliser sellers to inflate the price.

A 55-year-old farmer who had facilitated return of his Bihar-based workers to their homes by air during COVID-19 pandemic died allegedly by suicide inside a temple in the Outer Delhi's Alipur area, police said on Wednesday.

A mushroom farmer who sent his workers home to Bihar on a plane during the migrant crisis spurred by the 2020 Covid lockdown was found hanging in a temple in Delhi on Wednesday.

Niranjan Kumar, the eldest son of a small farmer in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, was one of 12.5 million youngsters who applied for 35,000 jobs when the Railways department started recruitment examinations more than a year ago.

About 40.81 Lakh farmers have already benefitted from the ongoing Rabi procurement operations.

Makhana, a seed from the water lily plant, has transformed from a regional Indian snack into a global superfood sensation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday release the 17th instalment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme, amounting to over Rs 20,000 crores, will be distributed to approximately 9.26 crore beneficiary farmers through Direc

The Nitish Kumar-led NDA government secured 129 votes in the test of strength amid opposition walkout in Bihar assembly.

As a child obsessed with sports, Durga Singh would run in the wide open spaces around the fields in her remote village of Belwa Thakurai in Gopalganj district of Bihar.

Amid rising air pollution caused by the burning of crop residue, the Bihar government has decided to identify farmers who are indulging in this practice and put up their names at the block offices, officials said on Saturday.

The situation has worsened so much that the farmers are not even getting labourers to extract potatoes from the potato fields.

An upwardly mobile farmer in Bihar was on Tuesday reprimanded by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for using too many "English words" while narrating his exciting life journey.

Former Bihar chief minister Sushil Modi has lashed out at the "insensitive" Mahagathbandhan government a day after the midnight violence in the Buxar district of the state in which a large group of farmers clashed with police

The police crackdown was against a group of farmers who had been on protest for the last two months, demanding better rates for their land being acquired by a state-run power company.

A 72-year-old farmer from Bihar underwent a surgery at a private hospital here for the removal of a "coconut-sized" tumour from his thyroid gland, with doctors saying there were multiple challenges, including saving the patient's voice.

The farmers allege that the advisor is working hand in glove with the fertiliser sellers to inflate the price.

A 55-year-old farmer who had facilitated return of his Bihar-based workers to their homes by air during COVID-19 pandemic died allegedly by suicide inside a temple in the Outer Delhi's Alipur area, police said on Wednesday.

A mushroom farmer who sent his workers home to Bihar on a plane during the migrant crisis spurred by the 2020 Covid lockdown was found hanging in a temple in Delhi on Wednesday.

Niranjan Kumar, the eldest son of a small farmer in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, was one of 12.5 million youngsters who applied for 35,000 jobs when the Railways department started recruitment examinations more than a year ago.

About 40.81 Lakh farmers have already benefitted from the ongoing Rabi procurement operations.