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
A recent UNESCO report indicates that India has the largest number of endangered languages in the world. A matter of concern, besides the absolute numbers, is the distribution of these endangered languages across number of speakers. The languages under threat include both scheduled, non-scheduled as well as official languages of some of the states.
The Jharia Rehabilitation and Development Authority (JRDA), in-charge of relocating thousands of families who will have to vacate their homes on the mining town
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO Laxman Hembram, a Class 9 student of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), has been selected to participate at Tunza International Children and Youth Conference on Environment 2009, to be held in Seoul from August 17 to 23.
Village panchayats are set to play a key role in the soon-to-be launched National Mission for Female Literacy. With the view that a panchayat is best positioned to identify illiterates among women, register them as learners and also assign them educators, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has also set a target of making 300 women literate for each panchayat.
Named as one of the six winners of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2009, prominent social activist Deep Joshi has been feted for
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BHUBANESWAR: The Panchayati Raj Department has instructed the project directors of District Rural Development Agencies (DRDAs) that the selection of beneficiaries under Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) will be as per the 1997 BPL list till the revised list comes into force.
New Delhi: In a giant leap towards making the Forest Rights Act effective, the environment ministry has informed states that it would not approve any forest clearance proposals till the consent of the gram sabhas has been sought for the projects The move, bound to come as a shocker to the infrastructure project proponents, es pecially the mining lobby, would ensure that the provisions of the Fores
The Centre
The Right to Education Bill, likely to be passed by Lok Sabha on Monday, is at the centre of a new row with disability activists alleging that it deliberately excludes disabled children from its ambit, in effect denying some 30 million children their right to education.