Cauvery issue: Rail roko protests rock Tamil Nadu

Farmers and opposition parties in Tamil Nadu on Monday staged rail roko agitation at various places in the state demanding the Centre to constitute the Cauvery Management Board immediately. Police......

Tamil Nadu observes bandh for drought-hit farmers

A dawn-to-dusk shutdown called in support of drought-hit farmers is being observed in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, with Dravida Munnetra Kazagham working president M K Stalin courting arrest in the......

111 Tamil farmers to contest against Modi in Varanasi

After taking their protests to the national capital to highlight their demands, Tamil Nadu farmers are gearing up for an electoral battle and will file 111 nominations from the Varanasi Lok Sabha......

Numbers Don't Add Up For BJP In Tamil Nadu

Indications are that the DMK combine will win more seats than the AIADMK and BJP, but is facing a tough fight in about half a dozen from the rest, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy of the electoral......

No respite for 'TOP' farmers: Tomato prices crash

Tomato farmers from Haryana to Tamil Nadu have been forced to abandon their crop in the field or dump the harvest.Virendra Singh Rawat and T E Narasimhan report. Distress in the farm sector has......

In onions, Gujarat farmers smell gold

Following a sharp spike in retail onion prices towards the end of 2013, a large number of farmers in Gujarat are moving towards the crop this year -- onion sowing in the state has increased 417 per......

Businessmen suicides outnumber farmers' for 2nd year in a row

The states recording the highest number of such deaths include Karnataka (14.3 per cent), Maharashtra (13.2 per cent), and Madhya Pradesh (11.3 per cent). Tamil Nadu (9.4 per cent) and Telangana......

Break in rains a threat to kharif yield, rabi sowing

A prolonged break in monsoon rains in most parts of the country is threatening to hit the yield of kharif crops. Photograph: Ajay Verma/Reuters It could even delay the upcoming rabi sowing. Major......

Aussie marathon man to run from Kanyakumari to Kashmir

'Starting my run from the sea and finishing it in the Himalayas will be quite an adventure.' 'I will be running two marathons a day.' IMAGE: Ultra marathon runner Pat Farmer. Photograph: Kind......