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
Stressing comprehensive programme on ensuring child rights, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said the government would take effective measures to eliminate child labour in the country. The government would take measures to ensure child rights for brightening their future, he said while addressing a programme at Tejgaon here yesterday.
Sanjeev Sanyal / June 11, 2009, 0:25 IST India needs to urbanise more quickly and this can be done by making smaller urban centres a magnet for rural migration.
B. Muralidhar Reddy To help Sri Lanka rehabilitate war-displaced COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday urged M.S. Swaminathan, father of the Indian Green Revolution, to help the nation finalise a road map for early rehabilitation and resettlement of the war displaced in the agriculture and fisheries sectors.
With the Centre ruling out any change in the 1980 Forest Conservation Act, a prominent NGO here has sought the intervention of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on the issue claiming that her late husband, Rajiv Gandhi, was in favour of amending the legislation to protect the rights of tribal people.
The National Alliance of Farmers' Associations (NAFA) has urged the Central government to include some key points in its 100-day action plan. The points sought to be included in the action plan include interventions to be made in the agriculture sector, which NAFA, an apex body of Indian farmers' association, believes would result in development of both farmers and the agriculture sector.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today releases 'Narmada Valley Vision 2015' document here at Mantralaya. Chairman Narmada Valley Development Authority KL Agrawal, Chief Secretary Rakesh Shahani, Vice Chairman NVDA Pradeep Bhargava, secretary to CM Anurag Jain and senior Advisor who scripted the Vision document LK Vagh were present on the occasion.
BHUBANESWAR: For the first time in India, Orissa will become the only state to have a rehabilitation centre for industrial workers, who met with accidents while disbursing their duties. Earlier, the industrial workers were subjected only to a monetary benefit scheme following a mishap, but no other way to help them to start a new life after their recovery.
Pakhiralay, June 7: A sense of relief swept across the Sunderbans after two weeks of living on the edge when the hungry tide that everyone had feared came without its appetite for destruction.
The human impact of climate change
Billions of people are already affected or are at extreme risk now, due to the effects of global warming such as floods The Guardian