Farmers’ suicides of great concern, says Clinton

October 5th, 2009 France Telecom executive quits amid suicidesPARIS — France Telecom SA said Monday that the company's second-in-command has quit, after weeks of mounting criticism over management's handling of a spate of suicides by employees. Louis-Pierre Wenes will be replaced as deputy CEO in charge of French operations by Stephane Richard, a former chief of staff for France's finance minister who joined the company in July as head of international operations, France Telecom said in a statement.

September 30th, 2009 24th suicide at France TelecomPARIS — Officials say a France Telecom employee has killed himself, becoming the giant phone company's 24th worker to commit suicide in 18 months. Officials in the eastern Haute-Savoie region said the 51-year-old man jumped off a bridge onto a highway on Monday.

September 22nd, 2009 VA IG says suicide prevention programs implementedWASHINGTON — The Veterans Affairs Department appears to have stepped up its suicide prevention efforts. The agency's inspector took a look at 24 facilities and found they generally met new requirements like appointing suicide prevention coordinators to track high-risk veterans, according to a report released Tuesday.

September 14th, 2009 France Telecom mobilizing managers after suicidesPARIS — France Telecom SA was mobilizing all 20,000 of its managers Monday in an effort to respond to a string of 23 employee suicides that unions blame partly on layoffs and restructuring at the telecommunications giant. The company's head of human resources, Olivier Barberot, was holding a conference call with all of France Telecom's managers, in response to the latest suicide on Friday.

August 27th, 2009 Drought, debt lead to Indian farmers' suicidesHYDERABAD, India — Dozens of impoverished farmers struggling with debt and poor rainfall have killed themselves in southern India in recent weeks, leaving behind families plunged even further into poverty, activists and politicians said. Nearly every day, newspapers report more farmer suicides in Andhra Pradesh, a state of 80 million people where 70 percent of the population depends on agriculture — and which has suffered badly this year from weak monsoon rains.

August 18th, 2009 HYDERABAD - With the southwest monsoon triggering heavy rains in parts of Andhra Pradesh and reviving hopes of the farmers, the Congress government is reluctant to declare the state drought hit. Minister for Revenue and Relief D.

August 6th, 2009 Clinton suggests US could join war crimes courtNAIROBI, Kenya — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says it is a "great regret" that the United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court.

July 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that Iran will never achieve its goal of obtaining a nuclear weapon, declaring to Tehran: "Your pursuit is futile." "What we want to do is to send a message to whoever is making these decisions, that if you're pursuing nuclear weapons for the purpose of intimidating, of projecting your power, we're not going to let that happen," she said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "First, we're going to do everything we can to prevent you from ever getting a nuclear weapon.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State who arrives here Sunday, will tour the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) to observe the direct seeding method for paddy cultivation among farmers. We dont know why but Clinton is interested in one technology - the direct seeding methodology for paddy cultivation, said a senior official of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) of which IARI is a part.

April 24th, 2009 Army trying to stem increases in soldier suicidesWASHINGTON — The Army has approved new guidance to military commanders in an effort to stem the rising toll of soldier suicides. The Army said in a statement Thursday that the new plan was approved by Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen.

April 24th, 2009 Army trying to stem increase in soldiers' suicidesWASHINGTON — The Army has approved new guidance to military commanders in an effort to stem the rising toll of soldier suicides, officials said late Thursday. The plan includes hiring more mental health workers and tightening the way officials handle drug testing, health screening and a host of other long-standing procedures that in some cases became lax, according to officials, as the Army focused on fighting two wars.

April 15th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani Wednesday, at a rally in Orissa, said that farmer suicides are happening only in Congress-ruled states and blamed the party for their plight.

March 31st, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Tuesday launched his party's poll campaign in Orissa by attacking the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on issues like inflation and farmer suicides.

February 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Concerned over the low sugarcane output expected this year, the government is likely to raise prices, which would mean sugar mill owners would have to pay more for their produce. 'Sugarcane farmers have to get a competitive price, which in turn would encourage them to produce more.

February 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani had a verbal brawl with members of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the Lok Sabha over the compensation paid to families of farmers who committed suicide after crop failure.