Boxing: India
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2015
Asian Boxing Championship, Bangkok
The Times of India, Sep 06 2015
Boxer Vikas misses out on Asian gold
Indian pugilists have put up an impressive performance at the Asian Boxing Championship in Bangkok, winning a silver and three bronze medals.
In September 2015, Vikas Krishan, who was the lone Indian in a final, lost to Uzbekistan's Bektemir Melikuziev in the middleweight category to settle for a silver in a closely-fought bout.
2015
Marathwada suicides: January-August
The Times of India, Sep 06 2015
Priyanka Kakodkar
Marathwada farmer suicides cross '14 tally
2015 figure already at 628; 105 just in August
As many as 628 farmer suicides have been reported so far in 2015 in the Marathwada region which has experienced the most deficient rainfall in the entire country. The figure is already higher than the 574 cases recorded here by the revenue department in the entire year of 2014 and three times higher than the cases recorded just two years ago.
In fact, Marathwada reported a steep 105 farmer suicides in the single month of August with the meagre rains destroying large swathes of crops. Faced with growing agrarian unrest, CM Devendra Fadnavis was on a threeday tour of the region, where he came up against farmers' protests in Parbhani. Both Congress and NCP have demanded loan waivers for the region, with the latter threat ening a jail bharo andolan.On Saturday , NCP chief Sharad Pawar said law and order would become a serious issue in the state if the Fadnavis regime failed to change its policies to handle the drought situation. While Vidarbha reports the highest farmer suicides in the state, cases have been spiralling up in the arid zone of Marathwada. This is the fourth successive year of distress in the region. While it faced a drought in 2012 and 2014, in 2013 it bore the brunt of hailstorms which destroyed crops.
So far this monsoon, Ma rathwada has recorded a 53% rain deficit. Water sources are drying up with dam levels down to 8% of capacity . Five of its 11 large dams are at dead storage level. The kharif crop has faced extensive damage.
Four of its 8 districts -Beed, Latur, Osmanabad and Parbhani -are worst affected by the drought. The highest farmer suicide toll of 177 has been reported in Beed. Osmanabad has recorded 98 cases, Latur 61 and Parbhani 41.
The gravity of the situation also forced Fadnavis to prune a delegation for his five-day Japan tour slated to begin from September 8 from 69 to 8 after cabinet colleagues and high-ranking bureaucrats raised eyebrows over the trip in the midst of the drought crisis.
