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
Without caring at all for the government permission or maintaining environment codes, people are lifting rocks from vast patches of cultivable land in Panchagarh and some parts of Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari. Once arable, the pieces of land in the neighbourhoods of Tentulia turn uncultivable as the rock-lifters, who don't pay the government any revenue, abandon those. After extracting every available piece of rock, the lifters find it too expensive to fill up the pits, which contain only sand and oozing water and lie unused for years.
- The Right to Information Act, once passed, will allow ordinary Bhutanese to be informed and get a responsible, transparent and accountable government. Though the Act was drafted in 2007, the cabinet is yet to introduce it in the Assembly. "Information is absolutely critical for fighting corruption and the government should introduce the act and enforce it at the earliest date possible,' said the chairperson of the anti corruption commission (ACC), Neten Zangmo.
A ministerial panel reviewing measures for Dalit welfare has asked the government to prepare a blueprint at the earliest to implement a Rs 7,140 crore
Aarti Dhar Audit says 1,210 children slogging as labourers in 8 zones Nearly 50 per cent of the child labour in the country is in to employment due to poverty and debt burden of their families, says a social audit on child labour. Problems such as alcoholism, domestic violence, financial bankruptcy, sudden deaths or crippling of parents and desertions were the reasons for children to quit education and take up work, the audit by World Vision India said.
M. Gunasekaran Action follows an alert by BBC Exporters in Tirupur shocked TIRUPUR: The sudden action by the British bargain retail chain, Primark, of firing three knitwear exporters of Tirupur for engaging child workers for embroidery and sequin work has come as a shock to the exporting community of the textile city. The retail chain, which has been sourcing garments from over 50 vendors here for the last two decades, acted on an alert by BBC.
AJK government is determined to take all possible effective steps to ensure disbursement of maximum relief and compensatory funds to Mangla dam victims which have already been released by the government.
To stage dharna outside Jharkhand Bhavan on June 20 Expresses concern over protection of those conducting surveys, social audits NEW DELHI: Several members of the Central Employment Guarantee Council who had demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry into the murder of social activist Lalit Mehta at Palamau in Jharkhand and questioned the role of the State Government in the NREGA works in Jharkhand have devised their next step to take their movement forward.
R.K. Radhakrishnan She answers criticisms against Karunanidhi and DMK government MAKING HER POINT: Kanimozhi, MP, addressing the DMK women's wing's first conference in Cuddalore on Sunday. CUDDALORE: After organising an impressive rally that lasted over five hours on Saturday, the DMK women's wing switched gears to debate on issues that affected the everyday lives of people on Sunday.
"Engineers like me can't help marvel at the Agaria's skills,' says Vinay Mahajan of the Ahmedabad-based independent research institute Sandarbh Development Studies. Mahajan has co-authored a paper,
While the Agarias wage a constant struggle with the forest department, the government has allegedly turned a blind eye to pollution by two soda ash-making units run by major industrial groups. At