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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Food riots erupted on Wednesday in eastern India, where more than 2 million people have been forced from their homes and about 250,000 houses destroyed in what officials say are the worst floods in 50 years. One person was killed in Madhepura district when angry villagers fought among themselves over limited supplies of food and medicines at overcrowded relief centres.
Unbridled loadshedding provoked massive outburst of public sentiments against the electricity companies on Tuesday as the citizens converging in thousands at the city railway station clashed with police after resorting to violence. Protests were held in many other parts of the province also in reaction to enhanced loadshedding duration. The protest in Okara took an ugly turn when a large number of people, prominent among them traders, occupied the main track at the city railway station, stopping the Lahore-bound Quetta Express for three hours.
Over 30,000 children under the age of 14 years are employed in shops, boutiques and majority secretly employed in the domestic sector. Apart from that sexual exploitation of children by local and foreign tourists is also found to be on the rise.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the top priority of the state government is to ensure well being of the common people, without which progress of the state is meaningless. The Chief Minister was addressing a function organised here a Lal Parade Ground today to present Star Awards to the promoted employees of the forest department and distribution of bonus to tendu leaf pluckers of Bhopal division.
CABINET DECIDES Bs Reporter / New Delhi August 22, 2008, 0:28 IST The Union Cabinet today approved the Unorganized Sector Workers' Social Security Bill, 2008, incorporating one of the key recommendations of the paliamentary standing committee
NEW DELHI: The final report of the National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes was presented to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Wednesday. The recommendations of the Commission was constituted in 2006, broadly relate to the provision of housing, education, skill development, creation of a permanent commission, and prevention of harassment by the police.
Around 40,000 residents of at least 10 village development committees (VDC) along the Koshi river in Susari district in eastern Nepal have been forced to take shelter in local schools and their relatives' houses as the swollen river has breached an embankment in the western side.
Around 40,000 residents of at least 10 village development committees (VDC) along the Koshi river in Susari district in eastern Nepal have been forced to take shelter in local schools and their relatives' houses as the swollen river has breached an embankment in the western side.