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Neelambaran A
TN This Week: Dalit Women Panchayat President Face Discrimination, COVID-19 Deaths Cross 10K, EPS to Lead AIADMK in Assembly Election
10 Oct 2020
The past week also saw protests by farmers and agricultural workers across the state, demanding insurance money, increase in the number of days' work and wages.
Saurav Kumar
17 Years After Shut Down, Motihari Sugar Mill Workers Await Justice and Salaries
25 Aug 2020
As the Bihar Assembly elections draw closer, the long neglected issue of shut sugar mills has again come to the fore.
Rabindra Nath Sinha
COVID-19 Impact on Sugarcane Production, Maharashtra May Face Labour Scarcity for Harvesting
21 Aug 2020
In Maharashtra and Karnataka, the second and third largest producer of sugar in the country, production is set to see an estimated increase upto 60% and 40%, respectively.
Abdul Alim Jafri
Meerut: Sugarcane Farmers in Distress After Mills Shut Down Without Clearing Dues Worth Rs 3,050 Crore
03 Jun 2020
According to the Sugarcane (Control) Order 1966, factories must pay the farmers in full within 14 days of taking the crop for crushing.
Abdul Alim Jafri
‘Borrowing to Feed my Family’: Govt. Dues to Sugarcane Farmers in UP Still Unpaid
06 May 2020
Despite sugar being an essential commodity and the government distributing it to the poor, sugarcane growers have not been paid in months.
Neelambaran A
TN this Week: Anti-CAA Conference in Chennai, Pondicherry Univ Students on Indefinite Hunger Strike and NEET Impersonation Arrests Continue
29 Feb 2020
NewsClick brings a round-up of the developments in the state this week.
Rabindra Nath Sinha
Why Anti-India Complaints in WTO on Sugar Subsidy May Remain Unresolved
14 Feb 2020
With functioning of WTO’s dispute settlement body in limbo, farmers’ outfits have written to PM Modi, raising concern over the impact of an adverse verdict on cane growers.
Mohd. Imran Khan
Sugarcane Farmer Dies After Being Thrown into Pot of Boiling Sugarcane Juice
14 Dec 2019
The farmer had asked for the sugarcane crushing unit owner for his dues.
Sumedha Pal
Thousands of Sugarcane Farmers Launch Agitation Against Haryana Govt over Non-payment of Dues
28 Aug 2019
The farmers are currently protesting by standing in the overflowing Begna river to demand attention of the government.
Neelambaran A
Tamil Nadu Farmers’ Associations Accuse Sugar Mill Owner of Tricking Farmers
22 Jun 2019
The sugarcane farmers allege that the owner of sugar mills has taken loans in the name of more than two thousand farmers amounting to Rs.300 crore from nationalised banks.