World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The state forest department is facing a problem to relocate the villages situated within the Buxa Tiger Reserve after villagers started getting pattas of forest land under the Forest Rights Act. The forest department had initiated a plan to make the Buxa Tiger Reserve located in Alipurduar subdivision of Jalpaiguri district human settlement free after human-animal conflict went up alarmingly.
BHUBANESWAR: She had no formal education beyond Class V and was married off at age 12, but for her sheer leadership qualities and dedication for saving water as a natural resource and other green initiatives, she has become a role model for the youths in Bihar.
TEZPUR: The Sonitpur district administration has initiated move to allot title certificates to the Scheduled Tribes, forest-dwellers and other traditional forest-dwellers under Forests Right Act, 2006 (FRA-2006).
PARADIP: The rehabilitation and periphery development advisory committee (RPDAC) meeting for the Rs 54,000 crore Posco steel plant will be organised in the last week of this month. This was decided at a meeting held earlier this week between the district administration and Posco officials. It was presided over by District Collector Gyanranjan Das.
The Maoists have been at the helm of the movement in Lalgarh right from its inception. Even as they organised the resistance to state repression, they put in place, at a rudimentary level, an alternative programme of development based on the people
Wednesday's incident in which local tribals in Naxalite infested Dantewada threw rotten eggs and tomatoes at Narmada Bachao Andolan chief Medha Patkar and Magsaysay award winner Sandeep Pande for their alleged nexus with the Maoists was the surest indication that NGOs and human right bodies poking their noses in the insurgency hit areas of Bastar are no longer seen in a favourable light.
Chennai: When it comes to proclaiming itself as the ultimate welfare state, the DMK government in Tamil Nadu is really pushing the envelope.
-Fringe dwellers cite act for control of green patch Alipurduar, Jan. 6: More than 500 forest villagers
GUWAHATI, Jan 6
Jamshedpur, Jan. 5: Jharkhand has recorded an increase in forest cover by 172 sqkm, a feat made possible by local villagers and, surprisingly, Maoists, whose presence deterred widespread tree felling that has been the norm in certain remote areas.