The toll of pesticide poisoning in Maharashtra's Yavatmal has risen to 19, with 35 farmers, labourers dying in all of Vidarbha and 450 hospitalised since July . The state government has set up a special investigation team to probe the deaths and lodged an FIR under the charges of `culpable homicide not amounting to murder' against agrochemical firm Gharda Chemicals.Another firm, Syngenta, also faces action.....Read more
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