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
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Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the Mukhyamantri Swasthya Yojana will very soon be launched to provide free medical treatment facilities to the poor in the state. An Act will be enacted on the Ladli Laxmi Yojana so as every eligible newborn girl could get the benefits of the scheme.
The Assam government today set on the roll a special scheme for the girl child in the family with an objective to wipe out discrimination especially in respect of higher education under the Assam Bikash Yojana.
In an ambitious plan that is projected to usher radical changes in the area of maternal and child care, the State government on Wednesday announced a Rs 180-crore twin-scheme that would ensure special care for the girl child after birth and of the mother since conception.
NEW DELHI: A higher allocation for schemes benefiting women and children has been made in the interim budget. Besides, several new schemes have also been announced. Widows in the age group of 18 to 40 will be given priority in admissions to Industrial Training Institutes (ITI). They will also be paid a monthly stipend of Rs. 500.
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government on Monday decided to provide a 50 per cent concession in bus fares to women above the age of 60 years in ordinary buses of Haryana Roadways, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced after chairing a meeting of his Cabinet.
ERODE: Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan has urged self-help groups (SHGs) to take up environment conservation activities.
Half a century of films about indigenous peoples have been removed from forgotten corners, recorded on compact discs and launched in the Mexican market. State bookshops and offices of the government
The mainstream media sees 2008 as a year of wars, terror strikes, financial meltdown. There is lip service to incidents of human rights violations. But 2008 was also a year of struggle. It was another year when common men and women registered their protest against untrammelled industrialization. This little diary by the Delhi-based ngo, Kriti, documents their struggle. There is an account
NEW DELHI: The House of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi finalised the revised budget estimates for 2008-09 and budget estimates for 2009-10 at a special meeting here on Thursday.