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
By N N Sachitanand The population has multiplied 3-fold to over 1 billion strong, the total land area remains the same.
For indigenous peoples round the world, traditional knowledge based on natural resources such as medicinal herbs forms the core of culture and identity. But this wealth of knowledge is under pressure. Indigenous communities are increasingly
The public sphere as conceptualised by Habermas is a bourgeois institution that had emerged in European countries as a "discursive platform" to engage in critical discussion and deliberations with the idea of delivering "common good". The institution has been replicated in many countries including India.
Cheek-by-jowl with swanky offices and multiplexes, exists an economy that lives by the tree. SALIL CHATURVEDI zooms in on Delhi
Book>> Community Warriors, State Peasants and Caste Armies in Bihar
Agitation for his release gathers steam ON MAY 4, the Supreme Court issued notice to the Chhattisgarh government seeking its response in two weeks to the petition of Binayak Sen, vice-president of the People
Death Due To Hunger, Sickness And Weather Disasters To Rise To Half A Million By 2030: Report London: Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday.
Sea levels have risen so much that during the annual king tide season residents of Carteret Islands stash their possessions in fishing nets strung between the palm trees. For the first time in history, you could actually lose countries off the face of the globe Climate change is a development issue that has some security aspects
Climate change is claiming 300,000 lives a year and costing the global economy $125bn annually, with the damage set to escalate rapidly, according to the first study of the immediate effects of global warming.
A new village named New Maria Basti created within Doomdooma revenue circle in Tinsukia district to rehabilitate the displaced families of Maria Basti, Bakjan Gutibari by Seva Kendra was formally inaugurated by Joseph Aind, the Bishop of Dibrugarh in presence of Durga Bhumij, MLA on Tuesday.