35 years on, Maharashtra farmers await land
Thirty-five years ago, the state government had promised to allocate 1 acre of land to each of the 860 farmers who were displaced because of land acquisition for the Pawna dam in Pune district. All that
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4 killed as farmers' protest turns violent in Maharashtra
<p> A farmers’ agitation over supplying water from the Pawna Dam to the twin industrial towns of Pimpri Chinchwad turned violent on Tuesday with four protesters, including one woman, being killed