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Karnataka farmers have been agitating in the state for over a week demanding an increase in the minimum support price of sugarcane

Apart from 400% increase in the total assets of KT Rama Rao, he is also facing 16 criminal cases that were filed during the separate Telangana statehood agitation in 2011-13

Chief minister HD Kumaraswamy has but received support from G Parameshwara, the deputy chief minister who, pacified the farmers. Parameshwara said that the state government would do everything in its capacity to help the farmers.

Farmers arrive in Bengaluru in large numbers to protest against meagre support price announced for sugarcane. Additional police force deployed to maintain law and order.

Farmers placed a garland of slippers on the banners that had pictures of people's representatives including Karnataka chief minister Kumaraswamy

 

'Assam will burn if they continue to push the bill. If the bill is passed in Parliament, the situation will worsen and the recruitment for ULFA-I, the anti-talk faction, will increase,' Anup Chetia said

There has been an unnerving increase in the number of incidents of sexual assault against children in Kerala, cases registered under the POCSO Act in the last eight months show
 

In its anti-dumping investigation, the DGTR stated that dumped imports of 'straight length bars and rods of alloy steel' from China have increased in absolute terms during the period of probe (2016-17).