 | Punjab: Demanding relief for crop damage, farmers hold government officials hostage in LambiThe officials, including a naib-tehsildar and patwaris, were freed by police late in the night on Monday as the protesters refused to let them go, according to an official. |
 | Chouhan waives off Rs 6.4000 crore electricity bills, MP farmers get loan interest reliefHe added that those 48 lakh consumers who had deposited around Rs 189 crore under the Yojana need not be dejected, as the amount already paid would be adjusted in future bills. |
 | Arani Cooperative bank chairman, manager and officials arrested in jewellery loan fraudChairman of the Bank Ashok Kumar, Manager Lingappan, Jewellery Assessor Mohan, and Cashier Jagadeesan allegedly got loans in the name of their relatives by pledging gold-plated jewellery. |
 | Maharashtra farm loan waiver scheme: 45,000 eligible account holders fail to come forward to claim benefitThe Mahatma Jyotiba Phule scheme is meant to offload the debt burden of farmers in the state. |
 | Harish proposes Rs 1000 crore allocation for expansion of oil palm cultivationFinance Minister Harish also announced that crop loan waiver for loans limited to Rs 50,000 would be waived-off by the end of March. |
 | Telangana Rythu Sarkar leads the way for others: KTRRama Rao said the state government had spent Rs 2.7 lakh crore on agriculture and allied sectors in the last seven years. |
 | Ahead of polls, Punjab government to release Rs 1,200 crore to clear loans of farmersThe latest tranche of funds is expected to benefit about 1.09 lakh small and marginal farmers having land up to five acres. |
 | Farm loan waiver, sops to be on Congress' Uttar Pradesh manifestoIn fact, the party has also been running a public campaign on social media and other digital platforms to reach out to commoners to gather inputs. |
 | Debate heats up on co-op bank loan waiverDuring the reply on the demand for grants for the Cooperation Department, Minister I Periyasamy said that a huge amount of money was swindled in the name of cooperative loan waiver. |
 | Punjab launches Rs 520 crore debt relief scheme for 2.85 lakh farm labourers, farmersThe CM said his govT decided to waive off loans amounting to Rs 520 crores with respect to the principal amount against their cooperative loans as of July 31, 2017. |
 | Farmers decline government assurances, to continue stirThe farmers, riding tractors and trolleys, broke barricades of the UP Police and then started proceeding towards the barricades put up by the Delhi Police, a senior police officer said. |
 | Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy announces Rs 34,000 crore crop loan waiverIn order to generate revenue for the massive loan waiver, the State has decided to increase excise duty on both fuel and alcohol, apart from the raise in road tax. |
 | Karnataka Budget-2018 HIGHLIGHTS | Power, petrol prices to go up in H D Kumaraswamy's maiden budgetThe budget proposes a hike in power tax from 6% to 9%. Petrol prices will increase by Rs 1.14 and diesel by Rs 1.12 per litre. H D Kumaraswamy announced farm loan waivers up to Rs 2 lakh too. |
 | Opposition to corner Fadnavis government on Nanar refinery, farm loan waiver at Maharashtra Assembly's monsoon sessionThe opposition Congress and NCP have been critical of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, and are planning to corner the government over it during the session, which will conclude on July 20. |
 | Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy allays fear over farm loan waiverKumaraswamy appealed to the agrarian community not to be bothered over the speculations regarding farm loan waiver. |
