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Last week, a family of eight committed mass suicide in a small town near Jaipur, in Rajasthan. The family consisted of an aged woman, her two sons,one daughter in law and her grand-children,the youngest being about 10 yrs. The tragedy was video graphed by the head of the family,who,by...

"It is a vicious circle that farmers have got into," said J S Thakur, who is lead investigator in a study on the ill impacts of pesticides being conducted by Punjab Pollution Control Board. More...