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Legislators of Opposition parties may not be happy with the government over the sugar cane purchase price, but Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) president and MLA K S Puttannaiah is of the view that the minimum purchase price of Rs 2,500 a tonne of sugar ...

Farmers' organisation Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha today rejected government's decision to offer Rs 150 per tonne more in addition to Rs 2,500 per tonne fixed as price for sugarcane crop, saying the increase was "meagre." "We do not welcome the ...

The members of Rajya Raitha Sangha and Hasiru Sene staged a protest demanding an inquiry into the alleged illegality in rejuvenation of lakes in the district, in front of Zilla Panchayat in Chikmagalur on Saturday. Addressing the protesters, Raita Sangha ...

The Hassan district unit of the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha on Thursday began a 48-hour dharna demanding that various measures be taken for 'bagair hukum' cultivators, including regularisation of land. They staged the protest outside the ...

The office-bearers of Bangalore North Taluk unit of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha allegedly assaulted the staff at the toll plaza on the outskirts of the town, on Wednesday. It is said the taluk unit president and four other office-bearers were proceeding ...

The 9th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) pushed through a Bali Package in the final hours, extending the Conference to December 7, but at the cost of the developing countries, the poor and the hungry. Facilitating Trade ...

A fact-finding report on Bt cotton crop has highlighted that growers who had sown Mahyco Bt Kanaka variety seeds suffered almost 100 per cent losses as the seed failed to yield, while other varieties of Bt cotton have also been affected. The report ...

Sugarcane growers, who have called off their dharna temporarily and dropped their plan to storm the Suvarna Soudha, where the winter session of the Legislature is on, have said that they will resume their agitation, if the government fails to ...

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah claims that by and large the sugarcane growers are happy with the government's gesture of paying more than `250 per tonne of sugarcane compared to the previous year. The Chief Minister, who announced `2,650 per tonne of ...