BJP, Govt Clash in LS Over Karnataka Drought
Outlook
Utilising the issue, BJP members accused the Centre of deliberately ignoring Karnataka while coming out with packages for Vidarbha and Bundelkhand. This was contested by Congress members including Ministers Sushilkumar Shinde and Veerappa Moily while ...

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New policy targets 10% growth for industry
Times of India
In keeping with the Twelfth Manufacturing Plan for India, the state government has also proposed three manufacturing zones of 5000 hectares each in Bundelkhand, Purvanchal and the proposed Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC).

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Set up AIIMS in Bundelkhand, Rohilkhand: Akhilesh
Zee News
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday asked the Centre to set up an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in impoverished Bundelkhand, Rohilkhand and Poorvanchal areas of the state along with Rae Bareli.
Akhilesh seeks three more AIIMS-like institutes in UPNew York Daily News
Chief minister seeks 3 more AIIMS for Uttar PradeshTimes of India
Scam suspected in installation of elephant statutes in Mayawati's dalit memorialsCanIndia News

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Set up AIIMS in Bundelkhand, Rohilkhand: Akhilesh
Zee News
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday asked the Centre to set up an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in impoverished Bundelkhand, Rohilkhand and Poorvanchal areas of the state along with Rae Bareli.

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Early monsoon set to wet sizzling Madhya Pradesh
Times of India
The temperature rose to 43 degrees Celsius in Bundelkhand, Vindhyachal and Gwalior Chambal regions. The met officials said the state will continue to experience heat wave conditions as dry weather is likely to prevail in the next few days.

Early monsoon set to wet sizzling Madhya Pradesh
Times of India
The temperature rose to 43 degrees Celsius in Bundelkhand, Vindhyachal and Gwalior Chambal regions. The met officials said the state will continue to experience heat wave conditions as dry weather is likely to prevail in the next few days.

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UP farmers seek Big B's help to write off debts
New York Daily News
Lucknow, May 16 — Days after Amitabh Bachchan wrote off the debts of 90 farmers in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, those in Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand area have written to the Bollywood star in the hope that he would do the same for them.
Now, UP farmers ask for monetary help from AmitabhDaily Bhaskar

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Varun Badola Returns with 'Phir Subah Hogi'
India West
The show looks at the regressive tradition of “sar dhakai” prevalent in the Bundelkhand district, which encompasses parts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Here the feudal rich can possess any of the dancers (who are all working women in a milieu ...

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NEWS IN BRIEF: Scamster claims Rs 200 crore assets built on 'donations'
Daily Mail
It was donations from such people from the poverty-stricken Bundelkhand that helped former Uttar Pradesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha build his Rs 200-crore empire. This is the astounding claim Kushwaha, a key accused in the Rs 5700-crore National ...
Minister claims he made Rs 200 crore fortune using 'donations' from people who ...India Today

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Past its sell-by date
Hindustan Times
But in urban areas with no room in schools and remote starvation and drought-hit regions — Kalahandi, Bundelkhand, desert regions, tribal belts — the unit cost of meals was far above the government budgets. Raw materials were also not available.

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Bundelkhand's debt-ridden farmers seek help of Big B
Daily Pioneer
After electronic media channels flashed news about Amitabh Bachchan donating Rs 30 lakh to clear the debts of 90 farmers of the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, the debt-ridden farmers of Bundelkhand have sent an appeal to the mega star to help them ...

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New state only when broad consensus in the parent state: govt
IBNLive.com
... the government of Uttar Pradesh had on November 23, 2011 also forwarded to the central government the resolution passed by state Assembly on November 21, 2011 for the division of Uttar Pradesh in four smaller states viz Purvanchal, Bundelkhand, ...

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Scam unearthed in installation of Mayawati's jumbo statues at dalit memorials
Times of India
... land at throwaway prices from farmers and selling them to builders. Financial bungling running into crores of rupees have also been alleged in the construction of canals in Bundelkhand and toilets in rural area under total sanitation programme.
Scam suspected in installation of elephant statutes in Mayawati's dalit memorialsCanIndia News

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Water riots, suicides on rise in Bundelkhand
Deccan Chronicle
Water riots and farmers suicides have become common in the drought-hit Bundelkhand region and gaining access to drinking water is the bane of everyone's existence. In Bangra village of Bundelkhand, only six out of the 14 handpumps supply drinking water ...

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Mother and son killed for water
Deccan Chronicle
A mother and her youngest son were hacked to death and their bodies set on fire by the two elder sons over a dispute over drawing water from a handpump in the parched Banda district in Bundelkhand region. The incident took place on Sunday when a ...

Daily Bhaskar
Ajay Singh seeks detail on 4000 crore package
Daily Bhaskar
Bhopal: The sought details of how the state government spent Rs 4000 crore Bundelkhand package it got from the Central government for the development of the region on the fourth day of his Jana Chetana Yatra on Monday. According to him, the state ...
'Govt buying wheat from pro-BJP farmers'Jagran Post

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'MP govt buys wheat only from BJP linked farmers'
Zee News
He said that Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan should give an account of the Rs 4000 crore, which the state government had received from the Centre for the development of Bundelkhand. Ajay held meetings at a number of places including ...
Congress accuses Govt of giving cover to criminalsDaily Pioneer

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Scam suspected in installation of elephant statutes in Mayawati's dalit memorials
Times of India
The Comptroller and Auditor General has found that Rs 12000 crore scam took place is sale of 21 government sugar mills. Financial bungling running into crores have also been alleged in construction of canals in Bundelkhand and toilets in rural area ...

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In thirsty Bundelkhand, woman and son killed over drinking water
Times of India
KANPUR: A dispute over water in parched Bundelkhand took a grisly turn when two brothers killed their mother and a younger sibling and set their bodies ablaze on Saturday night. Police recovered the charred bodies from their house at Ambedkarnagar area ...
Water riots, suicides on rise in BundelkhandThe Asian Age

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Farmers face jail for stealing water in Bundelkhand
Deccan Herald
Peak summer has barely begun but farmers in parched Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh have already started facing acute water shortage. They have been forced to steal precious water to irrigate their crop. Authorities have also stepped up vigil to ...
Failure to repay loans , reason behind farmer suicidesDaily Pioneer
Take urgent steps to prevent farmer suicides: BJPZee News

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