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
State govts are willing to hand land, forest, water over to industry. But more desperately, people all over India have begun to use all available means to contest the usually coercive intrusion of the State into their lives -Ashutosh Mishra South Korean steel giant POSCO's proposed steel plant hangs in virtual limbo. Popular resistance by the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti has rendered land acquisition for the Rs 51,000 crore project-hailed as a foreign direct investment coup-quite impossible.
Changes in the mentality of people are palpable after implementation of Ladli Laxmi Yojana scheme. The desire of a male heir by families is being abandoned -AA Farhan The state government had launched Ladli Laxmi Yojana with a view to creating positive thinking about girls among the masses, improvement in gender ratio and improving standard of education and health of girls apart from laying a solid foundation for their future. The novel scheme has yielded very good results within a short span of one year.
Over 5000 landless people at a memorial meeting yesterday urged the government to distribute khas lands among landless people, saying it is their constitutional right. They also demanded arrest and punishment of land grabbers who shot dead Shaheed Jayeda Khatun, a leader of landless people at Baburabad in Kaliganj upazila on July 27 in 1998 as the landless demanded khas land.
The number of child labourers is increasing alarmingly in the coastal district of Patuakhali as poverty forces them to work for earning livelihood, according to a study. At present, over 21,000 children below 12 years of old are engaged in different odd jobs in the district, says the study conducted by Human Development Association, a non-governmental organisation. Poverty is the key reason for the continued rise in the number child labourers in the district as poor parents send their children to work to earn livelihood, the study says.
Mission oriented: Shrenik Rao in New Delhi on Sunday. On a holiday from his teaching assignment at Napier University in Scotland, educationist-cum-filmmaker Shrenik Rao is cycling from Kanyakumari to Kashmir to spread awareness about environmental issues. Madhur Tankha shares his ideas and experiences along the trip.
Movement of vehicles at Karandih-Hata Road came to a grinding halt for two hours this morning as activists of Jharkhand Disom Party (JDP) blocked the road as a part of the Jharkhand bandh. The bandh call was given opposing the rehabilitation and re-settlement (R&R) policy, which was approved by the state cabinet recently. Carrying placards and banners, the activists of the party assembled at Karandih, a tribal dominated area.
A high-power committee to be set up for the same NEW DELHI: The Union Government is evolving out-of-the-box rehabilitation packages for people displaced on account of new hydel projects in the country. This was stated by Union Power Secretary Anil Razdan at the conclusion of a State Power Secretaries' Conference organised by the PHD Chamber on Tuesday. Mr. Razdan said the Government was seriously considering evolving a viable and friendly rehabilitation package for people who had been displaced because of the upcoming hydel projects.
AHMEDABAD: The state government has resolved to free the state from child labour by 2010 and has prepared a state action plan towards this goal. As part of this project, a three-day training programme
What is it that brings a dairy technologist, a law student, a former corporate secretary, an interior decorator and a librarian, among scores of others, to the office of an NGO on a Monday morning?
Hyderabad, July 20: The upcoming CRPF gym in Chandrayangutta is all set to give an entirely new meaning to the urban slang of a