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
Along with the plan for an armed offensive, the Centre is going ahead with its growth agenda in its fight against Maoists. The provocation follows release of figures pertaining to UPA's flagship scheme
THE government is exploring the option of creating a fund through contribution from steel companies, the annuity from which would help meet the livelihood requirement of those affected by projects. The government hopes that through this measure it would be able to acquire land more easily for steel projects while giving a more humane face to industrialisation.
On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18.
Faced with the commodification of food and livelihoods in the fishery of Canada
Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change as they make up the majority of the world's 1,5-billion people living on less than $1 a day and the climate-change debate needs to be reframed putting people at the centre,concludes this annual report released by UNFPA.
Silent on the HIV/AIDS Bill that seeks to guarantee rights of persons infected with the deadly virus, the government has finally sought to make some compensation for its indifference towards the issue by unveiling the
New Delhi: In rural India, ceiling should be imposed on irrigated lands above 15-20 hectares and holdings of non-irrigated lands should be limited to 10-15 hectares, a committee of rural development ministry on agrarian land reforms has recommended. The ceiling limits should be implemented with retrospective effect, the committee said.
New CSE analysis puts the lie to claims that rich Indians emit as much as their developed country counterparts. The richest 10% of Indians emit no more greenhouse gases per person than the poorest 10% of Americans, according to this analysis by the Centre for Science and Environment.
BHUBANESWAR: Natural disasters kill about 1,300 people every year in Orissa, said a report released here Thursday on the 10th anniversary of the super cyclone in which over 8,000 lives were lost. Prepared by the Orissa State Disaster Mitigation Authority (OSDMA), the report was released by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
WITH special audits detecting serious deficiencies in implementation of the government