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
INCREASING CITY SIZE COMES WITH ITS PITFALLS
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government is in a quandary whether to finalise the BPL list as per the 2002 survey or to go for a fresh census.
For centuries, Adam Abdi Ibrahim's ancestors herded cattle and goats across an unforgiving landscape in southern Somalia where few others were hearty enough to survive. This year, Ibrahim became the first in his clan to throw in the towel, abandoning his land and walking for a week to bring his family to this overcrowded refugee camp in Kenya.
TALCHER: The top authorities of Jindal India Thermal Power Plant are contemplating to scrap the proposed 1200-MW power plant at Kaniha due to sustained opposition by land-losers.
Mumbai: The effects of climate change spares none and the worst hit are the poor who have limited resources to adapt to changes in weather patterns.
Mumbai: Homeless people, ragpickers, slum dwellers and people displaced in the city will testify the impact of climate change on their lives and livelihood at a public hearing tomorrow marking United Nations Day.
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo The Orissa government has constituted Lanjigarh Project Area Development Foundation, a special purpose vehicle, for the progress and development of primitive tribal communities like Kutia Kondh and Dongria Kondh
Not long ago, at Lalgarh in West Bengal, the country witnessed the first fully televised confrontation between the Indian State and its subjects, in which the goal of the insurgents was not to create a separate state or country, but to capture the Indian State itself.
Without doubt, climate change will affect us all but the most vulnerable are women who could actually play a large role in curbing the effects of climate change. Yet they remain invisible in any decision-making effort. In every society women and men have gender roles but with climate change the gender inequality is magnified.
With each UNFCCC meeting, one is apprised of the galloping pace at which climate change is affecting the planet. Extremes of weather and natural disasters have become commonplace, with devastating floods in Africa and Asia, extreme cold or heat waves in Europe and the spectre of hurricanes in the Americas.