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
June 28: Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) has decided to tear up the ground in a process called open cast mining, to meet the voracious demand for coal. The decision could render 20,000 people homeless and affect 200 villages.
This note deals with the problem of manual scavenging in India as a form of caste and occupationbased social exclusion. It tries to explore the causes and reasons for the continuance of this social evil in India with a case study of Ghazipur district in eastern Uttar Pradesh.
Over the past few years, the West Bengal government and its law enforcement agencies used repression against the tribals in Lalgarh on the pretext of acting against the Maoists. This resulted in a genuine resistance movement since November 2008, which has reacted not only to state repression, but had also taken matters of livelihood and development into their own hands.
The political movement that came up from among the people of Lalgarh in November 2008 cried out for help and support from the civil and democratic society
Lalgarh poses questions that the two main streams of the Left in India have to answer. (Editorial)
The one-time summer getaway of the rich and famous of Bengal is today ruing its transformation into a Maoist stronghold, the gnawing bitterness aggravated by the Centre giving it the short shrift while choosing districts for a pilot project to kick-start development and give the campaign against extremism a social face.
Deputy Commissioner Ashwathnarayana held a co-ordinating committee meeting in his office on Wednesday to discuss over the effective implementation of Scheduled Tribe and other Traditional Forest Dwellers
The new government has before it a list of education agenda items that it must consider early in its tenure to make a substantial difference. Many of these were on the agenda in the last term too but they remained unfinished or unattended because there was no will to drive the required changes.
Lalgarh, June 23: Bullets cannot isolate Maoists, bowls of rice can. Realising the importance of delivering basic necessities to wean the villagers who had joined in the Lalgarh rebellion away from the guerrillas, the state government is trying to revive development projects in the region.
Jabalpur division has topped in the implementation of Ladli Laxmi Yojana introduced in the State two years ago. So far, 2,50,702 girls have been benefited by this novel scheme out of which 58,424 girls belong to Jabalpur division. Chhindwara has topped in the implementation of the scheme among the districts. As many as 16,402 girls got the benefit of the scheme in this district.